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Sir Joseph John Thomson OM FRS [1] (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.
Jun 7, 2024 · J.J. Thomson (born December 18, 1856, Cheetham Hill, near Manchester, England—died August 30, 1940, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was an English physicist who helped revolutionize the knowledge of atomic structure by his discovery of the electron (1897). He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906 and was knighted in 1908.
- George Paget Thomson
Apr 2, 2014 · J.J. Thomson was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose research led to the discovery of electrons.
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J.J. Thomson was a British physicist who discovered the electron and studied the structure of matter. He was a professor at Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Nobel laureate in 1906.
J.J. Thomson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases. He discovered that cathode rays are composed of electrons, which are part of atoms.
The British physicist Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson (1856–1940) performed a series of experiments in 1897 designed to study the nature of electric discharge in a high-vacuum cathode-ray tube, an area being investigated by many scientists at the time.
Learn about the life and achievements of Joseph John Thomson, the discoverer of the electron and the first Nobel laureate in physics. Read his account of his experiments on gas discharges and cathode rays, and his contributions to theoretical and experimental physics.
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