Joseph John Thomson citáty

Sir Joseph John Thomson bol britský experimentálny fyzik.

V roku 1897 objavil elektrón, pri štúdiu elektrickej vodivosti plynov, presnejšie vlastností katódového žiarenia. Za tento objav, ktorým sa začala éra časticovej fyziky, získal v roku 1906 Nobelovu cenu za fyziku. Ako riaditeľ Cavendishovho laboratória na univerzite v Cambridge viedol, alebo podporoval veľa základných experimentov, ktoré stáli pri zrode modernej fyziky na začiatku 20. storočia. Pod jeho vedením pracovalo mnoho neskorších nositeľov Nobelových cien ako napr. Ernest Rutherford alebo Francis William Aston.

Thomsonov syn, George Paget Thomson, získal tiež Nobelovu cenu za fyziku v roku 1937. Zaujímavosťou a tiež trochu iróniou modernej fyziky je, že George Thomson, na rozdiel od svojho otca, ktorý dokázal existenciu elektrónu ako novej častice, získal Nobelovu cenu za výskum vlnových vlastností elektrónu pri difrakcii elektrónov na kryštáloch. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. december 1856 – 30. august 1940
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“The difficulties which would have to be overcome to make several of the preceding experiments conclusive are so great as to be almost insurmountable.”

Warning about the non-conclusiveness for the experimental foundation of electrostatic theory, in a footnote of the third edition of: [James Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol.1, 3rd Edition, Oxford University Press, 1891, 37]
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“The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!”

A popular toast or slogan at J. J. Thomson's Cavendish Laboratory in the first years of the 1900s, as quoted in Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Volume 35 (1951), p. 251.
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“I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter.”

"Cathode rays" http://web.lemoyne.edu/~GIUNTA/thomson1897.html Philosophical Magazine, 44, 293 (1897).
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Kontext: As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are acted on by a magnetic force in just the way in which this force would act on a negatively electrified body moving along the path of these rays, I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter.

“We see from Lenard's table that a cathode ray can travel through air at atmospheric pressure a distance of about half a centimetre before the brightness of the phosphorescence falls to about half its original value. Now the mean free path of the molecules of air at this pressure is about 10-5 cm., and if a molecule of air were projected it would lose half its momentum in a space comparable with the mean free path. Even if we suppose that it is not the same molecule that is carried, the effect of the obliquity of the collisions would reduce the momentum to half in a short multiple of that path. Thus, from Lenard's experiments on the absorption of the rays outside the tube, it follows on the hypothesis that the cathode rays are charged particles moving with high velocities, that the size of the carriers must be small compared with the dimensions of ordinary atoms or molecules. The assumption of a state of matter more finely subdivided than the atom of an element is a somewhat startling one; but a hypothesis that would involve somewhat similar consequences—viz. that the so-called elements are compounds of some primordial element—has been put forward from time to time by various chemists.”

Royal Institution Lecture (April 30, 1897) as quoted by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century http://books.google.com/books?id=CGJDAAAAIAAJ (1910).
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