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J.J. Thomson

British physicist
Also known as: Sir Joseph John Thomson
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George Paget Thomson
Professor of Physics, University of London, 1930–52. Cowinner, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1937. Author of J.J. Thomson and the Cavendish Laboratory.
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J.J. Thomson (born December 18, 1856, Cheetham Hill, near Manchester, England—died August 30, 1940, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was an English physicist who helped revolutionize the knowledge of atomic structure by his discovery of the electron (1897). He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906 and was knighted in 1908. Thomson was the son of a bookseller in a suburb of Manchester. When he was only 14, he entered Owens College, now the University of Manchester....

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