Joseph John Thomson Discovery of the Electron
Joseph John Thomson, otherwise known as J. ... Thomson was a scientist who is credited with the discovery of the electron. ... Thomson won a Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery in 1906 and received knighthood in 1908. Thomson had been born in 1856 to middleclass parents and his father was a publisher as well as a bookseller (www. ... Thomson was described by people who knew him as humble, generous, a good conversationalist, and he inspired his students (www. ... He married a woman names Rose Elizabeth Paget in 1890 and had one son named Sir George Paget Thomson (who was awarded Nobel Prize in 1937) and one daughter (www. ... se/physics/laureates/1906/thomson-bio. ... Thompson discovered the electron in 1897 and for its discovery won the Nobel Prize in 1906(www. ... Thomson was an exceptional scientist; although his father had originally planned for Thomson to be an engineer, by default he ended up attending Owens College where they had an outstanding science program (www.