Accomplishments

Type

~ He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1884 and was President during 1916-1920; ~ Received the Royal and Hughes Medals in 1894 and 1902, and the Copley Medal in 1914 ~He was awarded the Hodgkins Medal At Smithsonian Institute, Washington in 1902; ~Franklin Medal and Scott Medal (Philadelphia), 1923; ~ Mascart Medal (Paris), 1927; ~ Dalton Medal (Manchester), 1931; ~ Faraday Medal (Institute of Civil Engineers) in 1938.

"He was President of the British Association in 1909 (and of Section A in 1896 and 1931) and he held honorary doctorate degrees from the Universities of Oxford, Dublin, London, Victoria, Columbia, Cambridge, Durham, Birmingham, Göttingen, Leeds, Oslo, Sorbonne, Edinburgh, Reading, Princeton, Glasgow, Johns Hopkins, Aberdeen, Athens, Cracow and Philadelphia."

What major acomplishments did J J Thompson contribute to chemistry? He made the discovery of the electron and investigation of its charge and mass, development of the mathmatical theory of electicity