A History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871–1910

Abstract

THE occasion of this book is the fact that on December 22, 1909, Sir J. J. Thomson completed the twenty-fifth year of his tenure of the Cavendish professorship of experimental physics in the University of Cambridge. As the editors state in their preface, the suggestion was made by some of the professor's immediate colleagues that the event should be celebrated in some way which would commemorate a tenure so long and so full of achievement. Hence this history of the laboratory over which Thomson has presided for the greater part of its existence.

A History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871–1910.

Pp. xi + 342. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910.) Price 7s. 6d. net.