"in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases"

Sir Joseph John Thomson

UK
born 1856, died 1940
CA - Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK
AA - Cavendish Laboratory
WA - Cavendish Laboratory

Additional Information:

• Nobel e-Museum Prize in Physics 1906
• Joseph John Thomson: Figures in Radiation History
• Joseph John Thomson
• Discovery of the Electron
• Sir Joseph John Thomson was the father of Sir George Paget Thomson, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937.