Joseph John Thomson


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in deutscher Übersetzung 

 Elektrizität und Materie (= Die Wissenschaft, Heft 3). Autorisierte Übersetzung von G. Siebert. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1904  = , ; ²1909
 → Electricity and Matter

 Elektrizitäts-Durchgang in Gasen. Deutsche autorisierte Ausgabe unter Mitwirkung des Autors besorgt und ergänzt von Dr. Erich Marx . Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1906 
 → Conduction of Electricity Through Gases

Originale 

 A Treatise on the Motion of Vortex Rings. London: Macmillan and Co., 1883 , 

 Applications of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888 , 

 Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893 ; ³1904

 Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism. 1895
 2nd edition. Cambridge: University Press, 1897 
 3rd edition. 1904
 4th edition. Cambridge 1909 , 
 5th edition. Cambridge 1921 , 

 The Discharge of Electricity Through Gases. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1898 

  Conduction of Electricity Through Gases. Cambridge: University Press, 1903 
 2nd edition. Cambridge 1906 , 

  Electricity and Matter. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1904 
 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1904 ; 1912 
 New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904 , 

 The Corpuscular Theory of Matter. London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1907 ; 2nd impress. 
 New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907 , 

 On the light thrown by recent investigations on Electricity on the relation between Matter and Ether (= Manchester University Lectures, 8). Manchester: University Press, 1908  = 

 Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913 
 2nd edition. London 1921 , 

 The Atomic Theory (= The Romanes Lecture 1914). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914 

 The Electron in Chemistry : Being five lectures delivered at The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Philadelphia 1923 , 

 Recollections and Reflections. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1936

Veröffentlichungen in Periodika 

Archives néerlandaises des sciences exactes et naturelles
 On a View of the Constitution of a Luminous Gas Suggested by Lorentz’s Theory of Dispersion. In: Ser. 2, Bd. 5 (1900), S. 642 

Journal de physique théorique et appliquée
 Décharge de l’électricité produite par les rayons de Röntgen, effets produits par ces rayons sur les diélectriques qu’ils traversent. In: Ser. 3, Bd. 5 (1896), S. 165 

Messenger of Mathematics
 On the Resolution of the Product of Two Sums of Eight Squares into the Sum of Eight Squares. In: Bd. 7 (1878), S. 73 
 An Extension of Arbogast’s Method of Derivations. In: Bd. 7 (1878), S. 142 
 Vortex Motion in a Viscous Incompressible Fluid. In: Bd. 8 (1879), S. 174 
 Note on the addition-equation in elliptic functions. In: Bd. 9 (1880), S. 52 

Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
 Electric Discharge through Gases. In: Bd. 14 (1896), S. 239 
 Cathode Rays. In: Bd. 15 (1899), S. 419 

Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
 On Maxwell’s Theory of Light. In: Ser. 5, Bd. 9 (1880), S. 284 
 On the Electric and Magnetic Effects produced by the Motion of Electrified Bodies. In: Bd. 11 (1881), S. 229 
 On some Electromagnetic Experiments with Open Circuits. In: Bd. 12 (1881), S. 49 
 On the Dimensions of a Magnetic Pole in the Electrostatic System of Units. In: Bd. 14 (1882), S. 225 
 On a Theory of the Electric Discharge in Gases. In: Bd. 15 (1883), S. 427 
 On the Chemical Combination of Gases. In: Bd. 18 (1884), S. 233 
 Reply to Prof. Wilhelm Ostwald’s criticism on my paper “On the Chemical Combination of Gases”. In: Bd. 23 (1887), S. 379 
 On the Magnetic Effects produced by Motion in the Electric Field. In: Bd. 28 (1889), S. 1 , 
 On the Passage of Electricity through Hot Gases. In: Bd. 29 (1890), S. 358 
 Some Experiments on the Velocity of Transmission of Electric Disturbances, and their Application to the Theory of the Striated Discharge through Gases. In: Bd. 30 (1890), S. 129 
 Conductivity of Hot Gases. In: Bd. 31 (1891), S. 135 
 On the Illustration of the Properties of the Electric Field by Means of Tubes of Electrostatic Induction. In: Bd. 31 (1891), S. 149 
 On the Discharge of Electricity through Exhausted Tubes without Electrodes. In: Bd. 32 (1891), S. 321 
 The Relation between the Atom and the Charge of Electricity carried by it. In: Bd. 40 (1895), S. 511 
 (mit ) On the Passage of Electricity through Gases exposed to Röntgen Rays. In: Bd. 42 (1896), S. 392 
 Cathode Rays. In: Bd. 44 (1897), S. 293 
 A Theory of the Connexion between Cathode and Röntgen Rays. In: Bd. 45 (1898), S. 172 
 On the Mechanical Forces acting on a Piece of Iron carrying an Electric Current. In: Bd. 46 (1898), S. 154 
 On the Charge of Electricity carried by the Ions produced by Röntgen Rays. In: Bd. 46 (1898), S. 528 
 On the Theory of the Conduction of Electricity through Gases by Charged Ions. In: Bd. 47 (1899), S. 253 
 Note on Mr. Sutherland’s Paper on the Cathode Rays. In: Bd. 47 (1899), S. 415 
 On the Masses of the Ions in Gases at Low Pressures. In: Bd. 48 (1899), S. 547 
 On Mr. Morris-Airey’s Paper on Electrolytic Conduction in Gases. In: Bd. 49 (1900), S. 404 
 The Genesis of the Ions in the Discharge of Electricity through Gases. In: Bd. 50 (1900), S. 278 
 On a kind of easily Absorbed Radiation produced by the Impact of slowly moving Cathode Rays; together with a Theory of the Negative Glow, the Dark Space, and the Positive Column. In: Ser. 6, Bd. 1 (1901), S. 361 

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
 On the Determination of the Number of Electrostatic Units in the Electromagnetic Unit of Electricity. In: Bd. 174 (1883), S. 707 
 On some Applications of Dynamical Principles to Physical Phenomena. In: Bd. 176 (1885), S. 307 ; (Part II) In: Bd. 178 A (1887), S. 471 
 (mit ) A Determination of “v”, the Ratio of the Electromagnetic Unit of Electricity to the Electrostatic Unit. In: Bd. 181 (1891), S. 583 

Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
 Note on the rotation of the plane of polarization of light by a moving medium. In: Bd. 5 (1886), S. 250 
 Some experiments on the electric discharge in a uniform electric field, with some theoretical considerations about the passage of electricity through gases. In: Bd. 5 (1886), S. 391 
 (mit ) Experiments on the magnetization of iron rods, especially on the effect of narrow crevasses at right angles to their length. In: Bd. 6 (1889), S. 84 
 (mit ) The Effect of Surface Tension on Chemical Action. In: Bd. 6 (1889), S. 264 
 The application of the theory of the Transmission of Alternating Currents along a wire to the Telephone. In: Bd. 6 (1889), S. 321 
 On the Effect of Pressure and Temperature on the Electric Strength of Gases. In: Bd. 6 (1889), S. 325 
 A Method of Comparing the Conductivities of Badly Conducting Substances for rapidly Alternating Currents. In: Bd. 8 (1895), S. 258 
 Longitudinal Electric Waves, and Röntgen’s X Rays. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 49 
 (mit ) On the Leakage of Electricity through Dielectrics traversed by Röntgen Rays. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 126 
 On the Cathode Rays. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 243 
 (mit ) On a chemical effect produced by the impact of kathode rays. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 371 
 On the effect of zinc and other metals on a photographic plate. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 372 
 On the Diffuse Reflection of Röntgen Rays. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 393 
 On the connection between the Chemical Composition of a gas and the Ionization produced in it by Röntgen rays. In: Bd. 10 (1900), S. 10 
 On the motion of a charged ion in a magnetic field. In: Bd. 10 (1900), S. 49 
 On the Conductivity of Gases exposed to Entladungsstrahlen. In: Bd. 10 (1900), S. 74 

Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
 On Electrical Oscillations and the effects produced by the motion of an Electrified Sphere. In: Bd. 15 (1883), S. 197
 Electrical Oscillations on Cylindrical Conductors. In: Bd. 17 (1886), S. 310
 Electrical Oscillations on Cylindrical Conductors. In: Bd. 19 (1888), S. 520

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
 Experiments on Contact Electricity between Non-Conductors. In: Bd. 25 (1876), S. 169 
 On the Vibration of a Vortex Ring, and the Action of Two Vortex Rings upon each other. In: Bd. 33 (1882), S. 145 
 The Vortex Ring Theory of Gases. On the Law of the Distribution of Energy among the Molecules. In: Bd. 39 (1885), S. 23 
 (mit ) On the Formation of Vortex Rings by Drops falling into Liquids, and some allied Phenomena. In: Bd. 39 (1885), S. 417 
 (mit ) On an Effect Produced by the Passage of an Electric Discharge through Pure Nitrogen. In: Bd. 40 (1886), S. 329 
 (mit ) Some Experiments on the Production of Ozone. In: Bd. 40 (1886), S. 340 
 Some Applications of Dynamical Principles to Physical Phenomena. Part II. In: Bd. 42 (1887), S. 297 
 On the Dissociation of some Gases by the Electric Discharge. In: Bd. 42 (1887), S. 343 
 (mit ) On the Rate at which Electricity leaks through Liquids which are Bad Conductors of Electricity. In: Bd. 42 (1887), S. 410 
 The Resistance of Electrolytes to the Passage of very rapidly alternating Currents, with some Investigations on the Times of Vibration of Electrical Systems. In: Bd. 45 (1889), S. 269 
 Note on the Effect produced by Conductors in the Neighbourhood of a Wire on the Rate of Propagation of Electrical Disturbances along it, with a Determination of this Rate. In: Bd. 46 (1889), S. 1 
 Specific Inductive Capacity of Dielectrics when acted on by very rapidly alternating Electric Forces. In: Bd. 46 (1889), S. 292 
 On the Rate of Propagation of the Luminous Discharge of Electricity through a Rarefied Gas. In: Bd. 49 (1891), S. 84 
 The Electrolysis of Steam. In: Bd. 53 (1893), S. 90 
 On the Electrolysis of Gases. In: Bd. 58 (1895), S. 244 
 On the Discharge of Electricity produced by the Röntgen Rays, and the Effects produced by these Rays on Dielectrics through which they pass. In: Bd. 59 (1896), S. 274 

Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
 Note on . In: Bd. 18 (1882), S. 377 

Rapports présentés au Congrès International de Physique, Paris 1900
 Indications relatives à la constitution de la matière fournies par les recherches récentes sur le passage de l’électricité à travers les gaz. In: Bd. 3, S. 138 

Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
 Report on Electrical Theories. In: Jg. 1885 (1886), S. 97 
 The Connection between Chemical Combination and the Discharge of Electricity through Gases. In: Jg. 1894, S. 482

Sekundärliteratur 

 J. C. Poggendorff: Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften, Band 3. Leipzig 1898, S. 1344–1345 ; Band 4-2 (1904), S. 1498–1499 

 Thomson 7). In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. 6. Auflage. Leipzig 1909, Bd. 19, S. 499 zeno.org

 Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M. In: William Rothenstein: Twenty-Four Portraits. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920 

 Joseph John Thomson 1856–1940. In: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. Bd. 3, Nr. 10 (Dec. 1941), S. 587–609  Royal Society

 Lord Rayleigh: The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson O.M. Cambridge: University Press 1942 ,