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He born
He born in Cheetham Hill (United Kingdom) -
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Living
He lived from 1856 to 1940. -
JJ Thomson wins scholarship
Trinity gave him a fellowship and he stayed on there, trying to craft mathematical models that would reveal the nature of atoms and electromagnetic forces. -
A professor of Physics
JJ Thomson became Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge -
Get married with miss Rose Paget
miss Rose Paget was among the researchers at the Cavendish as one of the first generation of women permitted into advanced university studies. -
Medalla Royal
He won this prize -
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 -
Medalla Hughes
He won the prize Medalla Hughes in 1902 -
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! -
Hydrogen Discover
Thomson showed in 1906 that hydrogen has only one electron. -
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". -
Positive ions
Thomson begins studying positively charged ions, or positive rays -
He was knighted
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Praise for his student
Rutherford, one of JJ Thomson's students, recieves a Nobel Prize in chemistry. -
Invented positive rays
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Famous amongst chemist
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. -
Medalla Copley
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Atomic theory
He gave the Romanes Lecture at Oxford on atomic theory. -
He died
