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THOMSON, Sir Joseph John (1856-1940). Physicist. |
Fellow of Trinity College 1880-; College Lecturer in Mathematics at Trinity College 1882-; Lecturer at Cambridge University 1883-84; Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge University 1884-1919; Nobel Prize 1906; Master of Trinity College 1918-40
Personal correspondence and papers 1901-38; scientific notes c1926-31; scientific correspondence 1915-26; biographical material c1956-71
6 boxes. Listed by the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists. The majority of Thomson's surviving papers are held by Cambridge University Library.
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Trinity College Library, October 1997.