J. J. Thomson Summary

Sir Joseph John Thomson 1856-1940 English Physicist As the director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, J. J. Thomson was instrumental in many important experiments and advances that ... Read more

Thomson, Joseph John (1856–1940) The British physicist, famous for his discovery of the electron, was born in Cheetham, near Manchester, on December 18, 1856. He first entered Owens College (la... Read more

The English physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) is credited with the discovery of the electron.On Dec. 18, 1856, J. J. Thomson was born at Cheetham Hill near Manchester. His father, a bookse... Read more

Joseph John Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction o... Read more