Life
Work
Of
J.J.
Thomson
J.J Thomson is best known for discovering
the electron.
Though many others before him had seen evidence of the
electron and knew there
was something going on, Thomson was the first to make
measurements and the
first to believe they were negatively charged particles that
were parts of
atoms.
In addition to discovering and describing
the electron, J.J.
Thomson was also a professor and teacher at the Cavendish
Laboratory. He
instructed seven other Nobel Prize winners and 27 Fellows of
the Royal Society.
He gave several famous lecture series that
are published in
books. He also wrote multiple books and papers about his work,
including Conduction
of Electricity through Gases
(1903), The Structure of Light (1907), and The
Corpuscular
Theory of Matter (1907). Thomson also wrote an
autobiography titled Recollections
and Reflections which was
published in 1936.
(People think they’re busy now, this guy had
a family,
discovered a major part of science, kept an eye on all of his
students, wrote
books and papers, was in charge of a college, AND found time
to write his
autobiography, all in 84 years!)
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