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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1900s (57) 1906 (6) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1850s (38) 1856 (4) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) United Kingdom (101) Cheetham Hill (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1940s (35) 1940 (6) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) United Kingdom (86) Cambridge (26) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name E-K (339) J (95) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) T (34) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name E-K (229) J (80) Joseph (9) 22. Shared Family Name 22. Shared Family Name S-Z (21) T (4) Thomson (2) 23. Religion 23. Religion Religious group (353) Christianity (158) Protestant (78) Anglican (7) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 51 (21) 30. Father - Son Winners 30. Father - Son Winners Father son (12) Thomson (2) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) United Kingdom (110) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, western (125) United Kingdom (64) Cambridge (19) University of Cambridge (18) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) United Kingdom (235) Cambridge (118) University of Cambridge (118) Alumni (69) Long-term academic staff (44) Manchester (25) University of Manchester (25) Alumni (9) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Academy of Sciences of the USSR (80) Academy of Sciences of Turin (33) Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL (36) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) B (102) Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (67) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (64) Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (54) Royal Society (294) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (111) Russian Academy of Sciences (144) S (49) Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (19) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) A (285) Adams Prize (3) Albert Medal (16) B (132) Bakerian Lecture (30) C-D (404) C (272) Copley Medal (60) E-F (439) E (135) Elliott Cresson Medal (30) F (394) Faraday Medal (15) Fellow of the Royal Society (101) Franklin Medal (45) G-H (389) H (196) Hodgkins Medal (1) Hughes Medal (29) Q-Z (398) R (196) Royal Medal (50) complete name: Joseph John Thomson nobel prize: physics award year: 1906 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906 was awarded to Joseph John Thomson "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture birth name: Joseph John Thomson given name: Joseph family name: Thomson occupation: physicist occupation: mathematician occupation: university teacher field of work: physics work location: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom notable work: plum pudding model description: Joseph John Thomson was an English physicist. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London and appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics at the Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory in 1884. In 1897, Thomson showed that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles, which he calculated must have bodies much smaller than atoms and a very large value for their charge-to-mass ratio. Thus he is credited with the discovery and identification of the electron; and with the discovery of the first subatomic particle. Thomson is also credited with finding the first evidence for isotopes of a stable (non-radioactive) element in 1913, as part of his exploration into the composition of canal rays (positive ions). His experiments to determine the nature of positively charged particles, with Francis William Aston, were the first use of mass spectrometry and led to the development of the mass spectrograph. Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the conduction of electricity in gases. Seven of his students, including his son George Paget Thomson, also became Nobel Prize winners either in physics or in chemistry. His record is comparable only to that of Arnold Sommerfeld. pronunciation: (/ˈtɒmsən/) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1906/summary/> date birth: 1856 date death: 1940 usual name: Joseph Thomson
