J. J. Thomson

Sir Joseph John Thomson
Sir Joseph John Thomson; OM PRS
Born	18 December 1856; Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Ingland
Dee'd	30 August 1940 (aged 83); Cambridge, Ingland
Naitionality	Inglis
Citizenship	Breetish
Alma mater	Owens College; Trinity College, Cambridge
Kent for	Plum pudding model; Discovery o electron; Discovery o isotopes; Mass spectrometer invention; First m/e meisurment; Proposed first waveguide; Thomson scatterin; Thomson problem; Coinin term 'delta ray'; Coinin term 'epsilon radiation'; Thomson (unit)
Awairds	Smith's Prize (1880); Royal Medal (1894); Hughes Medal (1902); Nobel Prize in Physics (1906); Elliott Cresson Medal (1910); Copley Medal (1914); Albert Medal (1915); Franklin Medal (1922); Faraday Medal (1925)
	Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics
Institutions	Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic advisors	John Strutt (Rayleigh); Edward John Routh
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; Niels Bohr; George Paget Thomson
Signatur
	Notes Thomson is the faither o Nobel laureate George Paget Thomson.

Sir Joseph John Thomson OM PRS^[1] (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) wis an Inglis pheesicist. He wis electit as a fellae o the Ryal Society o Lunnon^[2] an appyntit tae the Cavendish Professorship o Experimental Pheesics at the Cambridge Varsity's Cavendish Laboratory in 1884.^[3]

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↑ Rayleigh (1941). "Joseph John Thomson. 1856-1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 586–609. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0024.
↑ Thomson, Sir George Paget. Sir J.J. Thomson, British Physicist. Encyclopædia Brittanica. Retrieved 11 Februar 2015.
↑ "Joseph John Thomson". Chemical Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 18 November 2013.