J.J. Thompson's Plum Pudding Model

By mblandford
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    Birthdate - Deathdate

  • Trinity College at Cambridge

    won a small schloarhship to this college.

  • Chosen to be the third Cavendish Professor

    chosen to be the professor at The Cavendish Laboratory.

  • Married to Rose Paget

    eventually had 2 children

  • Began studying Cathode Rays

  • began studying positively charged ions, or positive rays

  • Suggested that atoms contained far fewer electrons

    a number roughly equal to the atomic number

  • Won the Nobel Prize in Physics

  • channeled a stream of ionized neon through a magnetic and an electirc field

    used deflection techniques to meausre the charge to mass ratio.

  • left research in 1918 to become Master at Trinity College