J.J. THOMSON
J.J. THOMSON J.J. THOMSON Joseph John Thomson was born in Cheetham Hill, a sub rub of enrolled at Owens Collage, Manchester, in 1870, and in 1876 entered Trinity Collage, Cambridge as a minor scholar. He become a fellow of Trinity collage in 1880, when he was Second wrangler and second smith's Prizeman, and he remained a member of the collage for the rest of his life, becoming lecture in 1883 and master in 1918. He was Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge, where he succeed Lord Rayleigh, from 1884 to 1918 and Honorary Professor of physics, Cambridge and Royal Institution, London. Thomson's early interest in atomic structure was reflected in his treatise on the Motion of Vortex Rings which won him the Adams Prize in 1884. His Application of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry appeared in 1886, and in 1892 he had his Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism Published. This latter work covered results obtained subsequently to the appearance of Ja...