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Recollections and ­Reflections
Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences

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Paperback, 482 pages
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United Kingdom, 29 October 2011

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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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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9781108037921
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1108037925
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10 b/w illus.
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21.6 x 14 x 2.7 centimeters (0.61 kg)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Boyhood and Owens College; 2. Undergraduate days: Cambridge then and now; 3. Cambridge, 1879–84; 4. The Cavendish Laboratory - and Professorship of Experimental Physics; 5. Psychical research; 6. First and second visits to America, 1869, 1903; 7. Visits to Canada and Berlin; 8. War work - Cambridge during the war; 9. Visit to America in 1923; 10. Some Trinity men; 11. Discharge of electricity through gases; the discovery of the electron; positive rays; 12. Physics in my time; Appendix; Index.

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This 1936 memoir by J. J. Thomson gives a fascinating picture of Cambridge scientific research during the period 1876–1936.

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