Editing J. J. Thomson (section)

===Overview===
On 22 December 1884, Thomson was appointed [[Cavendish Professor of Physics]] at the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref name="Profile">{{cite web|title=Joseph John "J. J." Thomson|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/joseph-john-j-j-thomson|publisher=[[Science History Institute]]|access-date=20 March 2018|date=June 2016}}</ref> The appointment caused considerable surprise, given that candidates such as [[Osborne Reynolds]] or [[Richard Glazebrook]] were older and more experienced in laboratory work.  Thomson was known for his work as a mathematician, where he was recognised as an exceptional talent.<ref name="Leadership">{{cite book|last1=Kim|first1=Dong-Won|title=Leadership and creativity : a history of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871–1919|date=2002|publisher=Kluwer Acad. Publ.|location=Dordrecht|isbn=978-1402004759|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iN13QvH8vnwC&pg=PA51|access-date=11 February 2015}}</ref>

He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1906, "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases." He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1908 and appointed to the [[Order of Merit (Commonwealth)|Order of Merit]] in 1912. In 1914, he gave the [[Romanes Lecture]] in [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] on "The atomic theory". In 1918, he became Master of [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], where he remained until his death. He died on 30 August 1940; his ashes rest in [[Westminster Abbey]],<ref>'The Abbey Scientists' Hall, A.R. p. 63: London; Roger & Robert Nicholson; 1966</ref> near the graves of Sir [[Isaac Newton]] and his former student [[Ernest Rutherford]].<ref name="sirJJrestingplace">{{cite web|last=Westminster Abbey| title= Sir Joseph John Thomson| url=http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/sir-joseph-john-thomson}}</ref>

Rutherford succeeded him as [[Cavendish Professor of Physics]]. Six of Thomson's research assistants and junior colleagues ([[Charles Glover Barkla]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Glover Barkla – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1917/barkla/biographical/ |website=The Nobel Prize |publisher=Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901–1921, Elsevier Publishing Company |access-date=11 October 2022 |date=1967 |quote=he worked under J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.}}</ref> [[Niels Bohr]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Niels Bohr – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/biographical/ |website=The Nobel Prize |publisher=Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922–1941, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam |access-date=18 October 2022 |date=1965 |quote=he made a stay at Cambridge, where he profited by following the experimental work going on in the Cavendish Laboratory under Sir J.J. Thomson’s guidance}}</ref> [[Max Born]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Max Born- Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1922/aston/biographical/ |website=The Nobel Prize |publisher=Nobel Lectures, Physics 1942–1962, Elsevier Publishing Company |access-date=11 October 2022 |date=1964 |quote=Born next went to Cambridge for a short time, to study under Larmor and J. J. Thomson.}}</ref> [[William Henry Bragg]], [[Owen Willans Richardson]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Owen-Willans-Richardson |work=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=18 October 2022 |quote=Richardson, a graduate (1900) of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a student of J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory}}</ref> and [[Charles Thomson Rees Wilson]]<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Rayleigh | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1941.0024 |title = Joseph John Thomson. 1856–1940 | journal = [[Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 3 | issue = 10 | pages = 586–609 | year = 1941 | doi-access = free }}</ref>) won Nobel Prizes in physics, and two ([[Francis William Aston]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Francis W. Aston – Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1922/aston/biographical// |website=The Nobel Prize |publisher=Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922–1941, Elsevier Publishing Company |access-date=13 October 2022 |date=1966 |quote=At the end of 1909 he accepted the invitation of Sir J. J. Thomson to work as his assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory}}</ref> and Ernest Rutherford<ref name="nobelprize">{{cite web|title=Ernest Rutherford – Biography|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1908/rutherford/biographical/|publisher=NobelPrize.org|access-date=6 August 2013 |quote=as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory under J.J. Thomson.}}</ref>) won Nobel prizes in chemistry. Thomson's son ([[George Paget Thomson]]) also won the 1937 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the wave-like properties of electrons.<ref>{{cite web |title=George Paget Thomson Biographical |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1937/thomson/biographical/ |website=The Nobel Prize |access-date=8 June 2022 |quote=he carried out experiments on the behaviour of electrons ... which showed that electrons behave as waves ...}}</ref>