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JJ Thomson wins scholarship,
and becomes second in his class in the graduation exam in mathematics. -
A Professor of Physics
JJ Thomson became Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge -
Thomson began experimental investigations
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A corpuscle discovered!
In 1897, a corpuscle (now known as an electron) was discovered using a cathode ray scope -
Yum plum pudding!
Thomson suggeested a model of the atom as a sphere of positive matter in which electrongs are positioned by electrostatic forces. Thus, the plum pudding model was created! -
Postive ions
Thomson begins studying positively charged ions, or positive rays -
Nobel Prize
JJ Thomson was awarded the Nobel Prize "in recogniton of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases". -
Praise for his student
Rutherford, one of JJ Thomson's students, recieves a Nobel Prize in chemistry. -
Famous amongst chemists
NIels Bohr leaves England to do postdoctoral research with JJ Thomson -
Influential monographs
Thomson published an influential monograph urging chemists to use mass spectrographs in their analysis.
