Abstract

THE Guthrie Lecture of the Physical Society will be given this year by Sir George Thomson, his subject being "The Growth of Crystals". The Lecture will be given on June 4 at the Science Museum, London, S.W.7, at 5 p.m. During the First World War, Prof. Thomson made notable contributions to aerodynamics ; later his attention was directed to the demonstration of the wave nature of the electron and the proof of de Brogue‘s Law. These experiments, now classical, earned him the Nobel Prize in 1937. After his appointment to the chair of physics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, the work on electron diffraction in particular was continued and led naturally to an interest in surface layers and to the general question of crystal structure. During the Second World War, Sir George Thomson held a number of important Government posts and more recently was the British delegate to the Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations Organisation.

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