Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940
J. J. Thomson handwritten volume of A TREATISE ON THE MOTION OF VORTEX RINGS, 1882.
Handwritten, bound volume of J. J. Thompson's A TREATISE ON THE MOTION OF VORTEX RINGS, believed to be in his own hand. This is the essay for which Thompson was awarded the Adam's prize by Cambridge University in 1882. Macmillan published the same material as a book in 1883.
Physicist (cathode rays, atomic structure, electrons) and administrator. On the faculty at University of Cambridge (1884-1940): director, Cavendish Laboratory (1884-1918), physics faculty (1894-1919), and master of Trinity College (1918-1940); and on the natural philosophy faculty at the Royal Institution of Great Britain from 1905. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906 for his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases.
University of Cambridge.
Vortex-motion.
Physicists. lcsh
Adams prize.
Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940
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