File 31 - Soft-cover notebook labelled `Positive Rays 1913-14'

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THMG/B/31

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Soft-cover notebook labelled `Positive Rays 1913-14'

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  • July 1913-June 1914 (Creation)

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Thomson, Sir George Paget (1892-1975), knight, physicist and Nobel laureate
(1892-1975)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Contains notes on laboratory experiments (not all in Thomson's hand).
This item documents Thomson's first research at the Cavendish Laboratory, where he began work on positive rays under his father's direction in the summer of 1913, to be interrupted a year later by the outbreak of war.

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