Thomson accomplished the feat by getting out of the day-to-day operations of the corporation — and presiding over the sale of assets that his father accumulated.
Roy Thomson once told his son that in order to be a success, you had to be a slave to the business.
Thomson donated most of the collection to the Art Gallery of Ontario, which is building an addition to house the material.
The young Thomson attended Owens College in Manchester, where his professor of mathematics encouraged him to apply for a scholarship at Trinity College, one of the most prestigious of the colleges at Cambridge University.
Thomson won the scholarship, and in 1880 finished second in his class (behind Joseph Larmor) in the grueling graduation examination in mathematics.
Thomson took an active interest in the work of all the young researchers at the Cavendish, daily checking on their progress and often making suggestions for improvements.
Joseph John Thomson was born in Cheetham Hill, a suburb of Manchester on December 18, 1856.
Thomson's early interest in atomic structure was reflected in his Treatise on the Motion of Vortex Rings which won him the Adams Prize in 1884.
Thomson co-operated with Professor J. Poynting in a four-volume textbook of physics, Properties of Matter and in 1895 he produced Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, the 5th edition of which appeared in 1921.
At the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, Thomson was experimenting with currents of electricity inside empty glass tubes.
Yet Thomson's bold suggestion that cathode rays were material constituents of atoms turned out to be correct.
Thomson's careful experiments and adventurous hypotheses were followed by crucial experimental and theoretical work by many others in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and elsewhere.
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