THECavendish Professorship at the University of Cambridge, England, of which Sir J. J. Thomson is the present holder, is a post of honor to which his predecessors have lent no ordinary luster.
LORD RAYLEIGH has written a most excellent and satisfying account of the life of Sir Joseph Thomson. The book gives an adequate explanation of Thomson's epoch-making scientific work, and ...
Others thought the rays were streams of particles. J.J. Thomson decided to find out for sure. Thomson was a physics professor at Cambridge University in the UK. He placed cathode tubes in electric ...
There he met J.J. Thomson (who would soon discover the electron), and Thomson encouraged him to study recently-discovered x-rays. Early on he found that all known radioactive elements emit two ...
John Thomson, born in Edinburgh, was the first Western photographer to travel widely through the length and breadth of China. This unit is a full reproduction of his celebrated Illustrations of China ...
J. Thomson, J. Stark, J. Townsend, J. B. Whitehead, F. W. Peek, Jr., and many others, the nature of the breakdown in solid and liquid insulating materials has up till now remained in complete ...
Dumfriesshire auctioneer, author and historian, John Thomson, has died peacefully at his home in Annan, aged 100. John Alexander Thomson (1924-2024) was born in Annan in October 1924, the youngest ...