This 1893 publication is a central text in the work of the Nobel prize winning physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson (1858 1940). Intended as an extension of James Clerk Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, it documents the important shift in Thomson's thinking towards the model of the atomic electric field, a theory that would eventually lead to his discovery of the electron. In Chapter 1, Thomson documents his experiments with Faraday tubes, using them to physically demonstrate a 'molecular theory of electricity'. Chapter 2 considers the discharge of electricity through gases,...
This 1893 publication is a central text in the work of the Nobel prize winning physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson (1858 1940). Intended as an extension...
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Manchester-born Sir Joseph John Thomson (1858 1940), discoverer of the electron, was one of the most important Cambridge physicists of the later nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Succeeding Lord Rayleigh as Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, he directed the research interests of the laboratory, and eight of his students, including Rutherford, went on to win Nobel Prizes, as Thomson himself did in 1906. He was knighted in 1908, received the Order of Merit in 1912, and became Master of Trinity College in 1918. He also served as President of the Royal Society from...
Manchester-born Sir Joseph John Thomson (1858 1940), discoverer of the electron, was one of the most important Cambridge physicists of the later ninet...
