Sir JJ Thomson, British physicist bouteille A night view of Vauxhall

A night view of Vauxhall Gardens

a fishwife is holding a dandy aloft

two open and two closed volumes

They failed to qualify for the Indy 500 race

As a columnist for 'Newsweek' magazine between 1937 and 1938 he was one of the most prominent critics of the New Deal and Liberalism in general

Sir JJ Thomson, British physicist bouteille A night view of VauxhallSir JJ Thomson, British physicist, 1932 (1956). In 1896 Thomson (1856 1940) , began experiments on cathode rays, proving that they are particles with a negative charge and much smaller than an atom, which were later named 'electrons'. He won the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery. In 1912 he went on to develop mass spectrometry. From the National Portrait Gallery, London. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history