Sir J. J. Thomson OM PRS
Born | Joseph John Thomson (1856-12-18)18 December 1856 Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England
Died | 30 August 1940(1940-08-30) (aged 83) Cambridge, England
Nationality | English
Citizenship | British
Alma mater | Owens College (now the University of Manchester) Trinity College, Cambridge (BA)
Known for | Plum pudding model Discovery of electron Discovery of isotopes Mass spectrometer invention First m/e measurement Proposed first waveguide Thomson scattering Thomson problem Coining term 'delta ray' Coining term 'epsilon radiation' Thomson (unit)
Children | George Paget Thomson, Joan Paget Thomson
Awards | Smith's Prize (1880) Royal Medal (1894) Hughes Medal (1902) Nobel Prize in Physics (1906) Elliott Cresson Medal (1910) Copley Medal (1914) Albert Medal (1915) Franklin Medal (1922) Faraday Medal (1925)
Scientific career
Fields | Physics
Institutions | Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic advisors | John Strutt (Rayleigh) Edward John Routh
Notable students | Charles Glover Barkla Charles T. R. Wilson Ernest Rutherford Francis William Aston John Townsend J. Robert Oppenheimer Owen Richardson William Henry Bragg H. Stanley Allen John Zeleny Daniel Frost Comstock Max Born T. H. Laby Paul Langevin Balthasar van der Pol Geoffrey Ingram Taylor Niels Bohr George Paget Thomson