Over Achievements
- Discovered the electron
- Adams Prize in 1884
- Honorary Professor of Physics
- His notes on Electricity and Magnetism were published
- The nobel prize in physics in 1906
- Copley medal 1914
- Hodgkins medal 1902
- Franklin and Scott medal 1923
- Mascart medal 1927
- Dalton medal 1931
- President of British association in 1909
- Honorary doctorate degrees from the Universities of Oxford, Dublin, London, Victoria, Columbia, Cambridge, Durham, Birmingham, Göttingen, Leeds, Oslo, Sorbonne, Edinburgh, Reading, Princeton, Glasgow, Johns Hopkins, Aberdeen, Athens, Cracow and Philadelphia.
- Faraday medal in 1938