This article was originally published with the title “ Sir Joseph John Thomson, the Great English Physicist ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 105 No. 26 (December 1911), p. 571 doi:10. ...

In the 1901 issue of Popular Science, physicist J. J. Thomson excitedly detailed his methods for discovering the electron and much more.

J.J. Thomson decided to find out for sure. Thomson was a physics professor at Cambridge University in the UK. He placed cathode tubes in electric and magnetic fields. He knew that these ...

IT is not easy even to recapture any adequate sense of the influence which J. J. Thomson exerted on science in schools in the earlier days of this century. Electrons and J. J. Thomson were spoken ...

Joseph John Thomson, OM, Physicist 1856-1940. Master of Trinity College Cambridge. But, at the request of his family, a new stone replaced this in 1991, with the inscription: 1856-1940 JOSEPH JOHN ...

IT was Prof. J. J. Thomson's name which took me to Cambridge in 1906. His lectures on electrons and the structure of matter introduced me to a domain of observation and thought new to me, and ...