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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 May 2012
      03 November 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139103718
      9781108037921
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139103718
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 482 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science, Physics and Astronomy, Engineering: General Interest, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, General Science
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
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    Subjects:
    History of Science, Physics and Astronomy, Engineering: General Interest, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
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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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