JJ Thomson, the man who discovered the electron and mentored 8 Nobel winners
On a chilly evening in 1897, in the quiet halls of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, a young physicist leaned over a glowing glass tube, watching streams of mysterious rays curve under the influence of a magnet. Joseph John Thomson—“JJ” as he was called—could hardly have known that what flickered before him would redefine the…
