Jonathan Majano 10/14/2014
Mr. Lewis
Chemistry 3Y
Hello my dearest grandchild. It appears that my life is coming to an end and I’ve never knew I had a grandson. I have been through a lot. I achieved success throughout my life and I want to tell you. I was born on December 18, 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England.
My father was named Joseph James Thompson and my mother was name Emma Swindells. He was a bookseller and wanted me to be an engineer. I started going to Owens College in Manchester in 1870 at age 14! Then I went into Trinity College in 1876 with a small scholarship and went into the atomic physics field. A few years later I soon became a member of the college and in that period I won second place for the Smith’s prize. …show more content…
After I graduated I went under the wing of Lord Rayleigh which later made me a member of the Royal Society. After the Royal Society I went to be a Professor at Cambridge and surpassed Lord Rayleigh. I started studying about cathode rays but the problem was that no one really knew much about it. Since no one really knew about it there wasn’t good equipment to learn and observe what cathode rays were, so I made better equipment to learn more about it.
With this new equipment it helped me discover electrons and subatomic particles. With my work of conduction of electricity in gases led me to the Nobel Prize of 1906 in physics. I was later knighted in 1906 and was made president of the Royal Society. With all my experiments and theories got me a lot of medals. A few of the medals I got were The Royal and Hughes medals in 1894, Copley medal, Hodgkin medal, and many more.
In 1896 I had the opportunity to go to America give four lectures based on my researches. They were later published as Discharge of Electricity through Gases. I later went back to America to give lectures at Yale University which had some theories about the structure of the atom. With having discovered the electron and earned medals I have also wrote books about my discoveries. Some of my books were the electron in chemistry, rays of positive electricity and my
Mr. Lewis
Chemistry 3Y
Hello my dearest grandchild. It appears that my life is coming to an end and I’ve never knew I had a grandson. I have been through a lot. I achieved success throughout my life and I want to tell you. I was born on December 18, 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England.
My father was named Joseph James Thompson and my mother was name Emma Swindells. He was a bookseller and wanted me to be an engineer. I started going to Owens College in Manchester in 1870 at age 14! Then I went into Trinity College in 1876 with a small scholarship and went into the atomic physics field. A few years later I soon became a member of the college and in that period I won second place for the Smith’s prize. …show more content…
After I graduated I went under the wing of Lord Rayleigh which later made me a member of the Royal Society. After the Royal Society I went to be a Professor at Cambridge and surpassed Lord Rayleigh. I started studying about cathode rays but the problem was that no one really knew much about it. Since no one really knew about it there wasn’t good equipment to learn and observe what cathode rays were, so I made better equipment to learn more about it.
With this new equipment it helped me discover electrons and subatomic particles. With my work of conduction of electricity in gases led me to the Nobel Prize of 1906 in physics. I was later knighted in 1906 and was made president of the Royal Society. With all my experiments and theories got me a lot of medals. A few of the medals I got were The Royal and Hughes medals in 1894, Copley medal, Hodgkin medal, and many more.
In 1896 I had the opportunity to go to America give four lectures based on my researches. They were later published as Discharge of Electricity through Gases. I later went back to America to give lectures at Yale University which had some theories about the structure of the atom. With having discovered the electron and earned medals I have also wrote books about my discoveries. Some of my books were the electron in chemistry, rays of positive electricity and my