Joseph John Thomson was born on December 18, 1856 near Manchester, England. His father died when "J.J." was only sixteen. Thomson attended Owens College in Manchester, where his professor of mathematics encouraged him to apply for a scholarship at Trinity College, one of the most prestigious of the colleges at Cambridge University.
homson's achievements were honored in numerous ways, and mark him as among the most accomplished physicists of his era. In 1906 he was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his researches into the discharge of electricity in gases.he died on August 30, 1940. one hundred years ago, amidst glowing glass tubes and the hum of electricity, the British physicist J.J. Thomson was venturing into the interior of the atom. At the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, Thomson was experimenting with currents of electricity inside empty glass tubes.
Experiments by J.J. Thomson in 1897 led to the discovery of a fundamental building block of matter. |
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