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J. J. Thomson

1856 - 1940

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Sir Joseph John Thomson (Manchester, 18 dicembre 1856 – Cambridge, 30 agosto 1940) è stato un fisico britannico, noto per aver scoperto nel 1891 l'elettrone, la prima particella subatomica di carica elettrica negativa, mediante un esperimento con i cosiddetti tubi di Crookes. Leggi di più su Wikipedia

His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2024). J. J. Thomson is the 18th most popular fisico (up from 44th in 2024), the 53rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 119th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Fisico.

J. J. Thomson was a British physicist who discovered the electron. He also discovered the first subatomic particle, the proton.

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Among fisicos, J. J. Thomson ranks 18 out of 851. Before him are Albert A. Michelson, Pierre Curie, André-Marie Ampère, Evangelista Torricelli, Erwin Schrödinger, and Henri Becquerel. After him are James Prescott Joule, Ernest Rutherford, Edward Victor Appleton, Werner Heisenberg, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, and Enrico Fermi.

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Among people born in 1856, J. J. Thomson ranks 3. Before him are Nikola Tesla, and Sigmund Freud. After him are George Bernard Shaw, Philippe Pétain, Woodrow Wilson, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Louis Sullivan, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, and Emil Kraepelin. Among people deceased in 1940, J. J. Thomson ranks 3. Before him are Leon Trotsky, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. After him are Selma Lagerlöf, Paul Klee, Neville Chamberlain, Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Arthur Harden, Nikolai Yezhov, Robert Wadlow, and Carl Bosch.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. J. Thomson ranks 53 out of 8,785. Before him are Alexander Fleming (1881), Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947), Thomas Hardy (1840), Bernard Montgomery (1887), James Cook (1728), and Mary, Queen of Scots (1542). After him are James Prescott Joule (1818), Anthony Hopkins (1937), John Major (1943), Mary of Teck (1867), Margaret Thatcher (1925), and Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800).

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Among Fisicos In United Kingdom

Among fisicos born in United Kingdom, J. J. Thomson ranks 4. Before him are Isaac Newton (1643), Stephen Hawking (1942), and Michael Faraday (1791). After him are James Prescott Joule (1818), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Robert Hooke (1635), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), and James Clerk Maxwell (1831).

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