Abstract
ALTHOUGH all my life I have cherished the greatest admiration for the great physicist whose death the scientific world is mourning, my personal contact with Sir Joseph Thomson was almost confined to the one period, nearly forty years ago, in 1903–4, when I was working in the late Sir William Ramsay's laboratory in London. But to me it was a notable one, and it left the same enduring impression,, felt and retained by all the youthful researchers then invading his laboratory at Cambridge, or indeed who have ever been his students, that “J. J.” was on the side of the angels, meaning ourselves.
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