This experiment was of considerable interest owing to the fact that Maxwell's calculations of the velocity of light in different substances, as dependent upon their SIR JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON ...

The ashes of physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson lie in the nave of Westminster Abbey near the graves of Newton and Rutherford. The interment took place during his funeral service held on 4th September ...

Sir Joseph John Thomson, a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle that was discovered. Thomson showed that ...

The discoverer of the electron was born in the Manchester suburb of Cheetham Hill and christened Joseph John. His father, Joseph James, was an antiquarian bookseller, and the business had come down to ...

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