works on aerodynamics and the value of science in society. Thomson stayed at Imperial College until 1952, when he became Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1964, the college honored his tenure with the George Thomson Building, a work of modernist architecture on the college's Leckhampton campus. Awards and honours In addition to winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, Thomson was knighted in 1943. He gave the address "Two aspects of science" as president of the British Association for 1959–1960. Personal life In 1924, Thomson married Kathleen Buchanan Smith, daughter of the Very Rev. Sir George Adam Smith. They had four children, two sons and two daughters. Kathleen died in 1941. Thomson died in 1975 and is buried with his wife in Grantchester Parish Churchyard to the south of Cambridge. One son, Sir John Thomson (1927–2018), became a senior diplomat who served as High Commissioner to India (1977–82) and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1982–87), and his grandson, Sir Adam Thomson (1955–present), also became a senior diplomat, serving as High Commissioner to Pakistan (2010–2013) and as Permanent Representative to NATO (2014–2016). One daughter, Lillian Clare Thomson, married the South African economist and mountaineer Johannes de Villiers Graaff. Thomson died on September 10, 1975 at Cambridge aged 83. See also Pinch (plasma physics) Z-pinch References External links Annotated Bibliography for George Paget Thomson from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Portraits of Sir George Paget Thomson at the National Portrait Gallery George Thomson biography at Wageningen University A history of the electron: JJ and GP Thomson published by the University of the Basque Country The Papers of Sir George Paget Thomson at the Churchill Archives Centre 1892 births 1975 deaths 20th-century British physicists Academics of Imperial College London Academics of the University of Aberdeen Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Queen's Royal Regiment officers British Army personnel of World War I Experimental physicists British nuclear physicists Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Bachelor Nobel laureates in Physics British Nobel laureates People educated at The Perse School People from Cambridge Anglo-Scots Royal Medal winners Presidents of the Institute of Physics Masters of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Howard N. Potts Medal recipients