His mathematical analysis of vortex rings led him to investigate cathode rays, and he repeated Hertzs experiments to show that electric fields would deflect cathode rays.
After his fathers death in 1872, he couldnt afford to become an apprentice engineer, and so he turned to science. His mathematical analysis of vortex rings led him to investigate cathode rays, and he repeated Hertzs experiments to show that electric fields would deflect cathode rays. FTP, identify this English physicist, whose son won the Nobel Prize for showing that the electron acted like a particle and a wave, and who himself won the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his work on conduction through gases, though he is better known as the discoverer of the electron.
After his fathers death in 1872, he couldnt afford to become an apprentice engineer, and so he turned to science.
Joseph John {Thomson}