Joseph John Thomson was born on 18 December 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire, England. His mother, Emma Swindells, came from a local textile family. His father, …

George Paget Thomson was born in 1892 at Cambridge, the son of the late Sir J J. Thomson (then Professor of Physics at Cambridge University), a Nobel Prize winner who, more than …

Jan 23, 2025 · Thomson was the son of a bookseller in a suburb of Manchester. When he was only 14, he entered Owens College, now the University of Manchester. He was fortunate in …

Thomson was born in Cambridge, England, the son of physicist and Nobel laureate J. J. Thomson and Rose Elisabeth Paget, daughter of George Edward Paget.

J. J. Thomson married Rose Elisabeth Paget in 1890. They had two children- a son named George Paget Thomson and a daughter named Joan Paget Thomson. The son went on to …

Thomson was the son of Sir J. J. Thomson (then Professor of Physics at Cambridge University), a Nobel Prize winner who, more than anyone else, was responsible for the discovery of the …

For diffraction of electrons by thin films. Sir George Paget Thomson was born in 1892 in Cambridge, England, the son of Sir J. J. Thomson who was primarily responsible for the …

Feb 2, 2020 · In 1890, Thomson married one of his students, Rose Elisabeth Paget. They had a son and a daughter. The son, Sir George Paget Thomson, received the Nobel Prize in Physics …

5 days ago · British physicist who demonstrated the wave-particle nature of elementary particles. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize for Physics and was knighted in 1943. The son of J. J. …

Joseph James (‘JJ’) Thomson is well known for his discovery of the electron, a negatively-charged sub-atomic particle of mass 1/1840 of the mass of a hydrogen a tom. This discovery took …