Description

Description: In this autograph letter signed, the physicist J. J. Thomson sends “very hearty and sincere congratulations” to his friend Frederick Bower “on attaining [his] 80th birthday, and also on the many notable contributions to science” in the last 80 years. He excitedly informs Bower about “several very promising botanists in the college,” two of whom were “in one year elected to Fellowship.” He hopes that they would do “as good work” as Bower. 

Signed: “Believe me/Yours most sincerely/ J.J. Thomson”

Written on two sides of 7” x 4 ½” stationery imprinted: “Trinity Lodge, Cambridge”. Item #A01822

Sir Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) was a British physicist whose discovery of the electron–which he called corpuscles–revolutionized the study of atomic structures. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his research into the electric conductivity of gasses.   

Frederick Orpen Bower (1855-1948) was an English botanist and professor of botany at the University of Glasgow. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1909 and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1938 for his contributions to the field of biology. 

Condition: Mailing fold lines, otherwise very good condition.