Labels:hakham | lodestone | monitor | poster | reckoner | sky OCR: 1856 On Decem ber 18 Thomson born in Manc hester, England. His father book rseller. 1870 Aged only 14, Thomson goes to Owens College (now the University of Mancl hester). The college runs cou rses in experimental physics, which 1 unusual for this time. 1876 Attends Trinity College, Cambridge. 1880 Gains a Bachelor of Arts degree i in mathematics. His interest turns to physics He is inspired by the work of James Clerk Maxwell (1831 79) who has shown that there relati ionship between electricity and magnetism. Thomson sets out FT develop electt romagnetic theory. 1884 Becomes professor of physics at the Cavendish aboratory in Cambridge elected fellow of the Royal Society London 1897 Concludes that all matter contains subatomic particles (particles that are much smaller than atoms) Thomson re ...
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