In addition to winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, Thomson was knighted in 1943.
The first meeting was on April 10, 1940 and the committee consisted of Sir George Paget Thomson as chairman and Marcus Oliphant, Patrick Blackett, James Chadwick, Philip Moon, and John Cockcroft as members.
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In contrast to Leckhampton House's suburban late-Victorianism, the George Thomson Building (named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist George Paget Thomson, sometime master of the college) is an example of postwar modernism, designed by Sir Philip Dowson of Arup Associates.