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J. J. Thomson: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics 1906
Author(s) -
Thomas John Meurig
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200602651
Subject(s) - art history , philosophy , physics , engineering physics , art
Positively electrifying : How did it come about that the brilliant mathematician, keen chemical theorist, but maladroit experimentalist, Joseph John Thomson, achieved such a major breakthrough as to discover the electron? This and allied topics are discussed in the Essay commemorating “J. J.”, 100 years after he received the Nobel Prize for Physics.