Born

18 December 1856
Cheetham Hill, Manchester, UK

Died

30 August 1940 (aged 83)
Cambridge, UK

Nationality

United Kingdom

Fields

Physics

Institutions

Cambridge University

 

 

 

Notable students

 

Charles Glover Barkla
Charles T. R. Wilson
Ernest Rutherford
Francis William Aston
John Townsend
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Owen Richardson
William Henry Bragg
H. Stanley Allen
John Zeleny
Daniel Frost Comstock
Max Born
T. H. Laby
Paul Langevin
Balthasar van der Pol
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Information Corner 

Thomson showed that cathode rays were particles with a negative electric charge and much smaller than an atom.

*He thought all atoms contained them.

          -These particles were later named electrons.

*He is credited for the discovery of the electron.

*1906 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron and his work on the conduction of electricity in gases

 

 

 

 

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