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and becomes second in his class in the graduation exam in mathematics.
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JJ Thomson became Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge
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In 1897, a corpuscle (now known as an electron) was discovered using a cathode ray scope
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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!
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Thomson begins studying positively charged ions, or positive rays
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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".
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Rutherford, one of JJ Thomson's students, recieves a Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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NIels Bohr leaves England to do postdoctoral research with JJ Thomson
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Thomson published an influential monograph urging chemists to use mass spectrographs in their analysis.
