| J. J. Thomson  AKA Joseph John Thomson
Born: 18-Dec-1856
Birthplace: Cheetham Hill, England
Died: 30-Aug-1940
Location of death: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Discovered the electron Wife: Rose Elizabeth Paget (m. 1890, one son, one daughter)
Son: George Paget Thomson (physicist)
University: Victoria University of Manchester
University: BA Mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge University (1880)
Professor: Physics Chair, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University (1884-)
Professor: Lecturer, Princeton University (1896, several lectures)
Professor: Lecturer, Yale University (1904, six lectures)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1906
Royal Medal 1894
Hughes Medal 1902
Copley Medal 1914
Knighthood 1908
Royal Society President (1916-20)
Royal Society 1884
Scottish Ancestry
Author of books:
Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism (1895, physics)
Discharge of Electricity through Gases (1897, physics)
Conduction of Electricity through Gases (1903, physics)
The Structure of Light (1907, physics)
The Corpuscular Theory of Matter (1907, physics)
Rays of Positive Electricity (1913, physics)
The Electron in Chemistry (1923, physics)
Recollections and Reflections (1936, memoir)
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