Joseph John Thomson was born in 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England. His mother, Emma Swindells, came from a local textile family. His father, Joseph James Thomson, ran an antiquarian bookshop founded by a great-grandfather from Scotland (hence the Scottish spelling of his surname). He had a brother two years younger than he, Frederick Vernon Thomson.[2]
His early education took place in small private schools where he demonstrated great talent and interest in science. In 1870 he was admitted to Owens College. Being only 14 years old at the time, he was unusually young. His parents planned to enroll him as an apprentice engineer to Sharp-Stewart & Co., a locomotive manufacturer, but these plans were cut short when his father died in 1873.[2] He moved on to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1876. In 1880, he obtained his BA in mathematics (Second Wrangler and 2ndSmith's prize) and MA (with Adams Prize) in 1883.[3] In 1884 he became Cavendish Professor of Physics. One of his students was Ernest Rutherford, who would later succeed him in the post. In 1890 he married Rose Elisabeth Paget, daughter of Sir George Edward Paget, KCB, a physician and then Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge. He had one son, George Paget Thomson, and one daughter, Joan Paget Thomson, with her. One of Thomson's greatest contributions to modern science was in his role as a highly gifted teacher, as seven of his research assistants and his aforementioned son won Nobel Prizes in physics. His son won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for proving the wavelike properties of electrons.
He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1906, "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases." He was knighted in 1908 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1912. In 1914 he gave the Romanes Lecture in Oxford on "The atomic theory". In 1918 he became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained until his death. He died on August 30, 1940 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to Sir Isaac newton.
Thomson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[1] on 12 June 1884 and was subsequently President of the Royal Society from 1915 to 1920.
This particle was the electron in 1897 (J.J. Thomson).
J. J. Thomson
No. JJ Thomson's experiments with cathode rays lead to the discovery of the electron.
Joseph J. Thomson's postulates included the idea that electrons are negatively charged particles, they have a much smaller mass compared to atoms, and they are uniformly distributed within the atom. These postulates were part of Thomson's plum pudding model of the atom.
J.J. Thomson, in 1897, was the first scientist to show that atoms emit tiny negative particles, which we now know as electrons. This discovery led to the development of the plum pudding model of the atom.
J. J. Thomson was born on 1856-12-18.
J. J. Thomson died on 1940-08-30.
Joseph John Thomson.
J. J. Thomson discovered the electron and the isotopes.
J. J. Thomson discovered the electron.
Sir J. J. Thomson was born on December 18, 1856.
Sir J. J. Thomson was born on December 18, 1856.
J J Thomson
J. J. Thomson is credited with the discovery of electrons.
J. Arthur Thomson was born in 1861.
J. Thomson discovered the electron.
Sir J. J. Thomson died on August 30, 1940 at the age of 83.