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Plaque commemorating J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron outside the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge Autochrome portrait by Georges Chevalier, 1923 Thomson c. 1920–1925 Thomson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) [ 25 ] [ 50 ] and appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish ...
The cathode ray tube by which J. J. Thomson demonstrated that cathode rays could be deflected by a magnetic field. The Thomson Medal and Prize is an award which has been made, originally only biennially in even-numbered years, since 2008 by the British Institute of Physics for "distinguished research in atomic (including quantum optics) or molecular physics".
Thomson's student Francis William Aston [6] continued the research at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, building the first full functional mass spectrometer that was reported in 1919. [7] He was able to identify isotopes of chlorine (35 and 37), bromine (79 and 81), and krypton (78, 80, 82, 83, 84 and 86), proving that these natural ...
J. J. Thomson, who won the first Hughes Medal in 1902 . The Hughes Medal is a silver-gilt medal awarded by the Royal Society of London "in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications". [1] Named after David E. Hughes, the medal is awarded with a gift of £1000.
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Joseph or Joe Thomson is the name of: J. J. Thomson (1856–1940), physicist; Joseph Thomson (cricketer) (1877-1953), Australian cricketer; Joseph Thomson (explorer) (1858–1895), African explorer; Joseph Angus Thomson (1856–1943), Australian politician; Joe Thomson (1948–2018), academic; Joe Thomson (footballer) (born 1997), Scottish ...
In section J. J. Thomson#Overview, for nine of those there is a sentence listing them as Nobel laureates for Physics and Chemistry (his son was also his student, si he is the ninth), with links to all listed. If citations are needed, they are provided in their respective articles, and can be copied here (and reviewed and verified if needed).