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Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.
Thomson was born in 1969 in Walkden, Worsley, Lancashire, [1] to Mary McAleer, who gave him up for adoption six weeks later. He was adopted from the Catholic Children's Rescue Society [2] by Andrew and Marita Thomson, a businessman and a bookseller from Didsbury. [3] He has one younger brother, Ben (born to his adoptive parents). [4]
Thomson was born in Cambridge, England, the son of physicist and Nobel laureate J. J. Thomson and Rose Elisabeth Paget, daughter of George Edward Paget.Thomson went to The Perse School, Cambridge before going on to read mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he was commissioned into the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment.
The prevailing model of atomic structure before Rutherford's experiments was devised by J. J. Thomson. [2]: 123 Thomson had discovered the electron through his work on cathode rays [3] and proposed that they existed within atoms, and an electric current is electrons hopping from one atom to an adjacent one in a series. There logically had to be ...
Loch-an-Eilean, Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire, 1835, Tate Gallery Thomson sketched while working outdoors by his friend, Thomas Dick Lauder, 1831, National Gallery of Scotland Memorial window to Rev John Thomson, Duddingston Kirk. Rev John Thomson FRSE HonRSA (1 September 1778 – 28 October 1840) was a Scottish minister of the Church of ...
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".
London Nomades, a photo from the book that includes Mary Pradd. The book gives the reader an insight into the daily lives of working class and poor Londoners. [5] It is arranged around photographs by Thomson with accompanying text by Smith. [5] The texts are brief, but include detail, including information from interviewing the photograph's ...
Hugh Thomson RI (1 June 1860 – 7 May 1920) was an Irish illustrator. [1] He is best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J. M. Barrie. Thomson inaugurated the Cranford School of illustration with the publication of the 1891 Macmillan reissue of Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford.