Recollections and Reflections
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- Author: Joseph John Thomson
- Date Published: November 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108037921
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Manchester-born Sir Joseph John Thomson (1858–1940), discoverer of the electron, was one of the most important Cambridge physicists of the later nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Succeeding Lord Rayleigh as Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, he directed the research interests of the laboratory, and eight of his students, including Rutherford, went on to win Nobel Prizes, as Thomson himself did in 1906. He was knighted in 1908, received the Order of Merit in 1912, and became Master of Trinity College in 1918. He also served as President of the Royal Society from 1915 from 1920 and was a government advisor on scientific research during World War I. This autobiography, published in 1936, covers all aspects of his career – his student days in Manchester, arrival in Cambridge, and growing international reputation. It gives a fascinating picture of Cambridge life and science at a dynamic period of development.
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- Date Published: November 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108037921
- length: 482 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.61kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Boyhood and Owens College
2. Undergraduate days: Cambridge then and now
3. Cambridge, 1879–84
4. The Cavendish Laboratory - and Professorship of Experimental Physics
5. Psychical research
6. First and second visits to America, 1869, 1903
7. Visits to Canada and Berlin
8. War work - Cambridge during the war
9. Visit to America in 1923
10. Some Trinity men
11. Discharge of electricity through gases
the discovery of the electron
positive rays
12. Physics in my time
Appendix
Index.
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