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**Joseph John Thomson** Joseph John Thomson was born in Cheetham Hill, England on December 18, 1856. Thomson went to Ownes College, Manchester in 1870. In 1876 Thomson went to Trinity College and was a minor scholar. In 1890 Thomson married Rose Elisabeth and had two kids. Thomson recieved the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906. He later died in Cambridge on August 30, 1940. Thomson discovered the electron using Cathode Ray experiments. **Thomson's Model** Thomson's said that the model of the atom was a spherical shape that had negative electrons in a positive charge homogeneous jellylike substance so that the total charge cancels the negative electrons. Created by: Kaitlin Foust