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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 18 December 1856
- Died
- 30 August 1940
- Place of birth
- Cheetham Hill, Manchester
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Thomson
- Father
- Joseph James Thomson
- Mother
- Emma Swindells
- Spouse
- Rose Thomson
- Sibling
- Frederick Vernon Thomson
- Field of work
- physics, experimental physics, electron, electrical conductance
- Occupation
- physicist, mathematician, university teacher
- Position held
- President of the Royal Geographical Society, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Fellow of the Royal Society, Copley Medal, Royal Medal, Elliott Cresson Medal, Hughes Medal, Faraday Medal, Hodgkins Medal, Albert Medal, Franklin Medal, Adams Prize, Royal Society Bakerian Medal
- birth name
- Joseph John Thomson.
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), BEIC Digital Library, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The New Student's Reference Work, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- John William Strutt
- doctoral student
- Ernest Rutherford, Theodore Lyman, John Sealy Townsend, Władysław Natanson, Paul Langevin, Owen Willans Richardson, Niels Bohr, Francis William Aston, Edward Victor Appleton, William Lawrence Bragg, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Arthur Llewelyn Hughes
- educated at
- University of Manchester, Trinity College, Victoria University of Manchester, University of Cambridge
- employer
- University of Cambridge
- interested in
- physics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society, International Scientific Esperanto Association, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Joseph John Thomson
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- notable work
- plum pudding model
- place of burial
- Westminster Abbey
- student
- Robert Oppenheimer, Charles Glover Barkla, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Francis William Aston, William Henry Bragg, Max Born, John Sealy Townsend, Balthasar van der Pol, John Zeleny, Daniel Frost Comstock, T. H. Laby, H. Stanley Allen
- student of
- Thomas Barker, Osborne Reynolds
- topic's main category
- Category:Joseph John Thomson
- writing language
- English
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