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The Nobel Prize in Physics
1906

Sir Joseph John Thomson
1856 - 1940

Great Britain

Cambridge University, Cambridge,
Great Britain

"in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases"
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Thomson seized on x-rays, discovered by Rontgen in 1895, as a convenient way of making a gas conducting - he used the word ionization - and he was on his way to the discovery of the electron.

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