Item 24 - 'Sir J.J. Thomson': talk given to the Osler Club by G. P. Thomson, shorter version

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Reference code

THMJ I/D/24

Title

'Sir J.J. Thomson': talk given to the Osler Club by G. P. Thomson, shorter version

Date(s)

  • Dec 1956? (Creation)

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Extent and medium

6 pp with corrections and deletions.

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Content and structure area

Scope and content

Talk given on 6 Dec 1956. This version with many corrections and deletions in Thomson's and in another hand, to reduce length to 1500 words.

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Related units of description

D/20-D/31: Other writings on J.J. Thomson, by G.P. Thomson. Several of these were commissioned for the centenary of J.J. Thomson's birth in 1956; the material was often drawn upon for later accounts and there is considerable overlap in the content.

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