Sir Joseph John Thomson
1856-1940
English Physicist
As the director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, J. J. Thomson was instrumental in many important experiments and advances that ...
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Joseph John Thomson
1856-1940
British physicist who discovered the electron (1897). Thomson improved upon Jean Perrin's results by accurately determining the charge-to-mass ratio of cathode ray...
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Thomson, Joseph John (1856–1940)
The British physicist, famous for his discovery of the electron, was born in Cheetham, near Manchester, on December 18, 1856. He first entered Owens College (la...
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The English physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) is credited with the discovery of the electron.On Dec. 18, 1856, J. J. Thomson was born at Cheetham Hill near Manchester. His father, a bookse...
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Joseph John Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction o...
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Joseph John Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction o...
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Thomson was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England, on December 18, 1856. He was the son of a bookseller who specialized in antique books. At the age of 14, he enrolled at Owen's College (now the ...
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