J.J. Thomson by Dennis McGowan

When was he born

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Born December 18, 1856, Cheetham Hill

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Died August 30, 1940, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

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Thomson was able to add to the atomic structure by discovering the electron in 1897.

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Thomson won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906 and would later be knighted in 1908

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When Thomson was 14 he attended Owens College, which is now the University of Manchester

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An electron is the negatively charged part of an atom

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Electrons were stuck into a lump of positive charge, similar to raisins stuck in dough.

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Involved passing electric current through gases at low pressure.

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Thomson knew that opposite charges attract and like charges repel

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Thomson married Rose Elisabeth Paget

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Thomson in 1884 was elected into the Fellow of the Royal Society and would later serve as the President of the group from 1916-1920.

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Thomson in his studies was able to figure out a method to separate different kinds of atoms

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Thomson traveled speaking at multiple universities including Yale where he discussed electricity and matter

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Thomson published a book in 1902 that was titled Conduction of Electricity through Gases

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J.J. Thomson – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2021. Mon. 1 Nov 2021.