Sir JJ Thomson, British physicist bouteille 10th August 1953

10th August 1953

two open and two closed volumes

a fishwife is holding a dandy aloft

On the left a group of figures stand with speech bubbles appearing from thier mouths

Cottage erected in St James's Park for the Ornithological Society of London

Sir JJ Thomson, British physicist bouteille 10th August 1953Sir JJ Thomson, British physicist, 1932 (1956). In 1896 Thomson (1856 1940) , began experiments on cathode rays, proving that they are particles with a negative charge and much smaller than an atom, which were later named 'electrons'. He won the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery. In 1912 he went on to develop mass spectrometry. From the National Portrait Gallery, London. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history