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Joseph John Thomson

British physicist1856 to 1940

Wikidata names John William Strutt as doctoral advisor and lists 20 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
John William Strutt

Students on Wikidata20

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Lionel Robert Wilberforce
born 1861
stated by Wikidata
Hugh Longbourne Callendar
born 1863
stated by Wikidata
Władysław Natanson
born 1864
stated by Wikidata
John Sealy Townsend
born 1868
stated by Wikidata
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
born 1869
stated by Wikidata
Ernest Rutherford
born 1871
stated by Wikidata
Paul Langevin
born 1872
stated by Wikidata
H. Stanley Allen
born 1873
stated by Wikidata
Harold A. Wilson
born 1874
stated by Wikidata
Theodore Lyman
born 1874
stated by Wikidata
Francis William Aston
born 1877
stated by Wikidata
Owen Willans Richardson
born 1879
stated by Wikidata
Arthur Llewelyn Hughes
born 1883
stated by Wikidata
Niels Bohr
born 1885
stated by Wikidata
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
born 1886
stated by Wikidata
William Lawrence Bragg
born 1890
stated by Wikidata
Edward Victor Appleton
born 1892
stated by Wikidata
George Paget Thomson
born 1892
stated by Wikidata
Robert William Ditchburn
born 1903
stated by Wikidata
Ernest B. Ludlam

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Osborne Reynolds
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Thomas Barker

Taught16

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
William Henry Bragg
born 1862
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
John Sealy Townsend
born 1868
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
born 1869
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ernest Rutherford
born 1871
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
John Zeleny
born 1872
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
H. Stanley Allen
born 1873
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Charles Glover Barkla
born 1877
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Francis William Aston
born 1877
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
T. H. Laby
born 1880
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Lewis Fry Richardson
born 1881
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Max Born
born 1882
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Daniel Frost Comstock
born 1883
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Niels Bohr
born 1885
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Balthasar van der Pol
born 1889
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
William Lawrence Bragg
born 1890
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
J. Robert Oppenheimer
born 1904

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataJohn William Strutt
2 steps up
stated by WikidataEdward Routhstated by WikidataJames Clerk Maxwellstated by WikidataSir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
3 steps up
stated by WikidataAugustus De Morganstated by WikidataIsaac Todhunterstated by WikidataWilliam Hopkins
4 steps up
stated by WikidataAdam Sedgwickstated by WikidataGeorge Peacockstated by WikidataWilliam Whewell

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 311 people: 311 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

undated
University of Manchester
studied
undated
Trinity College
studied
undated
Victoria University of Manchester
studied
undated
University of Cambridge
studied
undated
University of Cambridge
worked

At a glance

known as: physicist, mathematician, university teacher
fields: physics, experimental physics, electron, electrical conductance
awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, 1906, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1884, Copley Medal, 1914, Royal Medal, 1894, Elliott Cresson Medal, 1910, Hughes Medal, 1902, Faraday Medal, 1925, Hodgkins Medal, 1902, Albert Medal, 1915, Franklin Medal, 1922, Adams Prize, 1882, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, 1913, Guthrie Lecture, 1928, Knight Bachelor, 1908, Dalton Medal, 1931, Silliman Memorial Lectures, 1903, Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize, 1920, John Scott Award, 1923, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris, 1923
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1884, International Scientific Esperanto Association, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, from 1903, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1896, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1903
notable works: plum pudding model
Wikipedia: in 120 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere10

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJ. J. Thomson
stated by WikidataWikidataQ47285
stated by WikidataVIAF7472229
stated by WikidataGND118802089
stated by WikidataIdRef032937369
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121194340

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OpenAlexA5109162332a checked match

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project50701

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q47285,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Joseph John Thomson: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q47285},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Joseph John Thomson: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q47285