IT is not easy even to recapture any adequate sense of the influence which J. J. Thomson exerted on science in schools in the earlier days of this century. Electrons and J. J. Thomson were spoken of ...

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PEOPOSING a vote of thanks at a meeting of the British Association a few years ago, Sir Oliver Lodge described Sir J. J. Thomson as “a man whom posterity will envy us for having known”. It is not ...