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He born in Cheetham Hill (United Kingdom) -
He lived from 1856 to 1940.
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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.
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JJ Thomson became Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge -
miss Rose Paget was among the researchers at the Cavendish as one of the first generation of women permitted into advanced university studies. -
He won this prize
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In 1897, a corpuscle (now known as an electron) was discovered using a cathode ray scope -
He won the prize Medalla Hughes in 1902
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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! -
Thomson showed in 1906 that hydrogen has only one electron.
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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". -
Thomson begins studying positively charged ions, or positive rays -
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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 -
Thomson published an influential monograph urging chemists to use mass spectrographs in their analysis.
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He gave the Romanes Lecture at Oxford on atomic theory.
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