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Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940)

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British physicist and recipient of the 1906 Nobel prize for Physics

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "J. J. T."

Joseph John Thomson

Works

• On the Electric and Magnetic Effects produced by the Motion of Electrified Bodies (1881)
• Treatise on the Motion of Vortex Rings (1883) PDF
• 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.
• A Text-book of Physics, 1907-14 (with John Henry Poynting)
  • Properties of Matter
  • Sound (1914)
  • Heat
  • Static electricity and magnetism

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "On Bodies Smaller Than Atoms" in Popular Science Monthly, 59 (August 1901)
• "The Dynamics of a Golf Ball" in Popular Science Monthly, 78 (February 1911)
• "Some Further Applications of the Method of Positive Rays" in Popular Science Monthly, 82 (June 1913)

Articles in Philosophical Magazine

• Cathode Rays (1897)

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)