1. J.J. Thomson, The Corpuscular Theory of Matter (London: Archibald Constable Co., 1907), 1.
2. CUL MSS ADD 7654 R68 (18 January 1909): Rutherford’s reply to J.J.’s telegram congratulating him on his receipt of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
3. Strutt, Life of If Thomson, 150–151.
4. J.J. Thomson, “On the Charge of Electricity carried by a Gaseous Ion,” Phil. Mag. 5 (1903): 346–355; H. A. Wilson, “A Determination of the Charge on the Ions produced in Air by Röntgen Rays,” Phil. Mag. 5 (1903): 429–441.
5. J.J. Thomson, “The Existence of Bodies Smaller than Atoms,” Not. Proc. Roy. but 16 (1901): 574–586 on 582.