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Book SynopsisNobel Prize winner Sir Joseph John Thomson (18581940), discoverer of the electron, was one of the most important Cambridge physicists of the later nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. This 1936 memoir gives a fascinating picture of Cambridge scientific research during the period 18761936.
Table of ContentsPreface; 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.
