J.J Thomson

BACKGROUND INFO

• Date of birth- December 18,1856
• Place of birth- Manchester, United Kingdom
• Date of death-August 30,1940
• Field of science-Cathode Rays/Physics

EARLY YEARS

• He had a great education at a small private school.
• He had showed great talent at the school he had went to.
• He loved going to science class and showing great effort.
• He was the top of his class growing up.
• He was a very smart person.

ABOUT FAMILY

• His mother/ Emma Swindells,came from a local textile family.
• His father/ Joseph Thomson, had ran a antiquarian book shop.
• The fathers book shop was founded by a great grandfather.
• His brother/ Frederick Thomson was two years younger then him
• His brother went to the same school he had went to

OTHER PERTINENT INFO

• He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1906
• "In the recognition of great theoretical and experimental -
• -Investigations on the conduction of electricity of gases"
• This changed his life for ever.
• It was hard for him when his father died.

EDUCATION

• He was young when he went to Owens collage
• At 14 his parents wanted him to go to sharp- Stewart
• At a locomotive manufacture
• When his father died his collage plans had changed

SCIENCE CAREER

• His major discovery was finding that there was
• A negative charge in a cathode ray
• He also discovered how the electron worked in a
• Cathode ray

CHALLANGES DIFFICULTIES

• Some of the challenges that he had to face
• Was when his dad died cause he wanted to go to the collage
• That his dad wanted him to go to
• But plans had changed.

RECOGNIZED FOR HIS WORK

• He contributed to modern science
• In his role of a highly gifted teacher
• He had gotten recognized cause he had showed what
• He did by becoming a really good teacher.

SOURCES USED

• Wikipedia
• Nobelprize.org
• Biography.com