Author:Joseph John Thomson

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Sir Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery. A British physicist This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "J. J. T."

Sir Joseph John Thomson

Works

• On the Electric and Magnetic Effects produced by the Motion of Electrified Bodies (1881)
• On the Magnetic Effects produced by Motion in the Electric Field (1889)
• On the light thrown by recent investigations on Electricity on the relation between Matter and Ether (1908) (transcription project)
• Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses (1913)
• Romanes Lecture: The Atomic Theory. Clarendon Press, 1914.

Contributions to EB1911

• “Conduction, Electric” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (Through Gases)
• “Electric Waves” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Magneto-Optics” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Matter” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Röntgen Waves” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Vacuum Tube” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1940, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.