He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1906, "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases." He was knighted in 1908 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1912. They had one son, George Paget Thomson, and one daughter, Joan Paget Thomson. In 1890, Thomson married Rose Elisabeth Paget, daughter of Sir George Edward Paget, KCB, a physician and then Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge at the church of St. Thomson was known for his work as a mathematician, where he was recognized as an exceptional talent. The appointment caused considerable surprise, given that candidates such as Richard Glazebrook were older and more experienced in laboratory work. On 22 December 1884 Thomson was chosen to become Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge. Thomson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 12 June 1884 and served as President of the Royal Society from 1915 to 1920. Thomson received his MA (with Adams Prize) in 1883. He applied for and became a Fellow of Trinity College as of 1881. In 1880, he obtained his BA in mathematics ( Second Wrangler in the Tripos and 2nd Smith's Prize). He moved on to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1876. His parents planned to enroll him as an apprentice engineer to Sharp-Stewart & Co, a locomotive manufacturer, but these plans were cut short when his father died in 1873. In 1870 he was admitted to Owens College at the unusually young age of 14. His early education was in small private schools where he demonstrated outstanding talent and interest in science. He had a brother two years younger than he was, Frederick Vernon Thomson. His father, Joseph James Thomson, ran an antiquarian bookshop founded by a great-grandfather. His mother, Emma Swindells, came from a local textile family. Joseph John Thomson was born 18 December 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire, England. 3.4 Experiment to measure the mass to charge ratio of cathode rays.3.3 Experiment to show that cathode rays could be deflected electrically.3.2 Experiment to show that cathode rays were electrically charged.3.1 Experiments on the magnetic deflection of cathode rays.Seven of his students, and his son George Paget Thomson, also became Nobel Prize winners. Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron and for his work on the conduction of electricity in gases. His experiments to determine the nature of positively charged particles, with Francis William Aston, were the first use of mass spectrometry and led to the development of the mass spectrograph. Thomson is also credited with finding the first evidence for isotopes of a stable (non-radioactive) element in 1913, as part of his exploration into the composition of canal rays (positive ions). Thus he is credited with the discovery and identification of the electron and with the discovery of the first subatomic particle. In 1897, Thomson showed that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles, which he calculated must have bodies much smaller than atoms and a very large value for their charge-to-mass ratio. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London and appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics at the Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory in 1884. J." Thomson OM PRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was an English physicist. Thomson: Computational Chemistry and Gas Discharge Experiments, Profiles in Chemistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation Thomson is the father of Nobel laureate George Paget Thomson. For the moral philosopher, see Judith Jarvis Thomson. This article is about the Nobel laureate and physicist.
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