Links

Listed below are some World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics and themes surrounding the centenary of the electron.

Particle Physics Laboratories

European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) (www.cern.ch/)

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) (www.fnal.gov/)

World sites in High Energy Physics (www.cern.ch/Physics/HEP.html)

Selected UK university research groups in particle physics

Imperial College London (euclid.tp.ph.ic.ac.uk/)

Manchester University (hepwww.ph.man.ac.uk/)

University College London (www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/)

Museums with related collections, galleries and displays

Deutsches Museum (www.deutsches-museum.de/dme01.htm)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) museum (web.mit.edu/museum/)

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University (www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/)

National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/nmah.htm)

Science Museum (www.nmsi.ac.uk/on-line/treasure/plan/2ndnucl.htm)

General sites

Institute of Physics (www.iop.org/)
Visit their special section relating to the Electron Centenary Year (www.iop.org/Physics/Electron/).

Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) (www.pparc.ac.uk/)
Visit their Electron Anniversary (www.pparc.ac.uk/intro/electron/) web site.

General Physics web site at TIPTOP (www.tp.umu.se/TIPTOP/)

Reading list

Dahl, P F
Flash of the Cathode Rays: A History of J J Thomson's Electron
Bristol: IOP Publishing, 1997 (www.iop.org/Books/Catalogue/0750304537)

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