THOMSON, SIR J.J

Additional reading J.J. Thomson and G.P. Thomson, Conduction of Electricity Through Gases, 3rd ed., 2 vol. (192833, reprinted 1969); and J.J. Thomson, Recollections and Reflections (1936, reprinted 1975), are representative of Thomson's work. His life and career are traced in Lord Rayleigh, The Life of Sir J.J. Thomson, O.M. (1942, reprinted 1969); and G.P. Thomson, J.J. Thomson and the Cavendish Laboratory in His Day (1964; also published as J.J. Thomson: Discoverer of the Electron, 1966).