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home  **J.J. Thomson**




 * He was born in 1856.
 * He was born in Cheetham Hill, a suburb of Manchester.
 * He had two children, one daughter named Joan Paget Thomson and one son named George Paget Thomson
 * I n 1897 he discovered the electron.
 * He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1937.
 * He died on August 30, 1940.