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JJ Thomson

By kaitlyn_noelle
  • Joseph John Thomson was born

    Joseph John Thomson was born

    Born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England.
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    JJ Thomson's Life

  • Minnesota becomes a state

    Minnesota becomes a state

    which later produced Joe Mauer
  • Abraham Lincoln becomes president

    Abraham Lincoln becomes president

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Admitted to Owens College

    He was only 14 years old at the time.

  • Became Cavendish Professor of Physics

    One of his students was Ernest Rutherford

  • Spanish - American War begins

  • The Rose Bowl game was played

    The Rose Bowl game was played

  • Won Nobel Prize in Physics

    Won Nobel Prize in Physics

    For recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases. he was credited with discovering the electrons and isotopes. he also invented the mass spectrometer.

  • Boy Scouts established

  • Prohibition begins

  • Women granted the right to vote

  • Pluto was discovered

    Pluto was discovered

  • JJ Thomson Died

    He was buried in Westminster Abbey near Sir Isaac Newton.