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.


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(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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