Joseph John Thomson

Joseph John Thomson, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1856-12-18 in Cheetham Hill, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: English physicist (1856–1940)

Biography

Sir Joseph John Thomson was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906

Awarded on: 1906-11-12

"in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases"

Affiliations:

  • University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom