Human Accomplishment: J. J. Thomson

a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered.

The Nobel Prize in physics (1906)

"in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases"

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(J. J. Thomson)

Born

Joseph John Thomson 18 December 1856 Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England

Died

30 August 1940 (aged 83) Cambridge, England

Nationality

English

Known for

Plum pudding model Discovery of electron Discovery of isotopes Mass spectrometer invention Electromagnetic mass First m/e measurement Proposed first waveguide Gibbs–Thomson equation Thomson scattering

Fields

Physics

Alma mater

Owens College (now the University of Manchester ) Trinity College, Cambridge (BA)

Awards

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)

Institutions

Trinity College, Cambridge

Academic advisors

John Strutt (Rayleigh) Edward John Routh

adultbasic

Britain

Children

George Paget Thomson, Joan Paget Thomson

Citizenship

British

era

1800+

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

Preceded by

Henry Montagu Butler

Succeeded by

George Macaulay Trevelyan

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