Editing J. J. Thomson (section)

===During his life===
[[File:J.J. Thomson Plaque outside the Old Cavendish Laboratory.jpg|thumb|Plaque commemorating J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron outside the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge]]
[[File:1923 JJ Thomson.jpg|thumb|[[Autochrome Lumière|Autochrome]] portrait by Georges Chevalier, 1923]]
[[File:Sir J.J. Thomson LCCN2014715407.jpg|thumb|upright|Thomson {{circa|1920–1925}}]]
Thomson was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (FRS)<ref name="frs"/><ref name=EBThomson>{{cite book|last1=Thomson|first1=Sir George Paget|chapter=Sir J.J. Thomson, British Physicist|title=Encyclopædia Britannica|chapter-url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/593074/Sir-JJ-Thomson|access-date=11 February 2015}}</ref> and appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of [[Experimental Physics]] at the [[Cavendish Laboratory]], [[University of Cambridge]] in 1884.<ref name="Profile"/> Thomson won numerous awards and honours during his career including:
* [[Adams Prize]] (1882)
* [[Royal Medal]] (1894)
* [[Hughes Medal]] (1902)
* [[Hodgkins Medal]] (1902)
* [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] (1906)
* [[Elliott Cresson Medal]] (1910)
* [[Copley Medal]] (1914)
* [[Franklin Medal]] (1922)

Thomson was elected a fellow of the [[Royal Society]]<ref name="frs"/> on 12 June 1884 and served as President of the Royal Society from 1915 to 1920. He was elected to membership of the [[Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society]] on 30 April 1895.

Thomson was elected an International Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1902, and International Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1903, and the United States [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1903.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-10 |title=Joseph John Thomson |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/joseph-john-thomson |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Joseph+J.+Thomson&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Joseph J. Thomson |url=https://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001201.html |access-date=2024-02-02 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences}}</ref>

In November 1927, Thomson opened the Thomson building, named in his honour, in the [[The Leys School|Leys School]], Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theleys.net/about-us/history/thomson-building|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111042826/https://www.theleys.net/about-us/history/thomson-building|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-01-11|title=Opening of the New Science Building: Thomson|access-date=2015-01-10|date=2005-12-01}}</ref>