Sir JJ Thomson, British physicist bouteille Original: stipple engraving

Original: stipple engraving

10th August 1953

who was betrothed to the prince

Cottage erected in St James's Park for the Ornithological Society of London

On the left a group of figures stand with speech bubbles appearing from thier mouths

Sir JJ Thomson, British physicist bouteille Original: stipple engravingSir JJ Thomson, British physicist, 1932 (1956). In 1896 Thomson (1856 1940) , began experiments on cathode rays, proving that they are particles with a negative charge and much smaller than an atom, which were later named 'electrons'. He won the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery. In 1912 he went on to develop mass spectrometry. From the National Portrait Gallery, London. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history