Particle Physics Laboratories

European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN)

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

World sites in High Energy Physics

Selected UK university research groups in particle physics

Imperial College London

Manchester University

University College London

Museums with related collections, galleries and displays

Deutsches Museum

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) museum

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University

National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Science Museum

General sites

Institute of Physics
Visit their special section relating to the Electron Centenary Year.

Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC)
Visit their Electron Anniversary web site.

General Physics web site at TIPTOP

Reading list

Dahl, P F
Flash of the Cathode Rays: A History of J J Thomson's Electron
Bristol: IOP Publishing, 1997

Pais, Abraham
Inward Bound: of matter and forces in the physical world
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986

Lord Rayleigh
The Life of Sir J J Thomson OM
Cambridge: University Press, 1942

Fitzpatrick, T C, Whetham, W C D, et al.
A History of the Cavendish Laboratory 1871-1910
London: Longmans, Green, 1910

Crowther, J G
The Cavendish Laboratory 1874-1974
London: Macmillan, 1974

Pippard, A B
"JJ Thomson and the discovery of the electron"
pp 1-23 of Springford, M (ed)
Electron: a centenary volume
Cambridge: University Press, 1997

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