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  • NAME: J.J. Thomson
  • OCCUPATION: Academic, Physicist
  • BIRTH DATE: December 18, 1856
  • DEATH DATE: August 30, 1940
  • EDUCATION: Owens College, Trinity College
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Cambridge, England
  • Full Name: Joseph John Thomson
  • AKA: J.J. Thomson
  • AKA: Joseph Thomson

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J.J. Thomson was a Nobel Prize winning physicist whose research led to the discovery of electrons.


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