JJ Thomson studied electrical discharges in gases. Following the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity his imaginative work inspired many young researchers, including Ernest Rutherford, WL Bragg and ...

The physicist JJ Thomson — another Nobel winner — famously and erroneously proposed that atoms lacked a nucleus, but that doesn’t make his previous discovery of the electron any less important.

Frances Arnold, a Caltech professor and a 2018 Nobel Prize-winner for chemistry, ... JJ Thomson, a 1906 physics winner, trained nine more physics laureates plus two in chemistry.

The revolutionary theory of the nature of light which won Albert Einstein the 1921 Nobel prize for physics ... experiments carried out by J.J. Thomson had convinced his fellow physicists that the ...