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Joseph John Thomson

Joseph John Thomson
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Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases." In 1897, he showed that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged…

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  1. Ahmed Raza Khan BarelviJune 14, 1856 – October 28, 1921
  2. Andrey MarkovJune 2, 1856 – July 20, 1922
  3. Charles Émile PicardJuly 24, 1856 – December 11, 1941
  4. Joseph John Thomson (this page)December 18, 1856 – August 30, 1940
  5. Paul von JankóJune 2, 1856 – March 17, 1919
  6. Thomas Joannes StieltjesDecember 29, 1856 – December 31, 1894

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