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JJ Thompson was a British scientist who was credited with the discovery of electrons and isotopes in adition to the mass spectrometer. Thompson was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for for the discovery of the electron and his work on the conduction of electricity in gases. Upon winning the Nobel Prize, Thompson was knighted by the King of England. Thompson had several other expirements including the natural radioactivity of Potassium and he also demonstrated that a Hydrogen atom only has a single electron. Thompson became a professor of physics and one of his students was Ernest Rutherford.
 * Sir Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson** (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940)