If you were handing out Nobel Prizes back then would you have given one to JJ Thompson?

Question

If no, why not?

You can read about him here.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1906/thomson-bio.html

Answer 1

Yeah I don't see why not?

I know some of his work is pretty obvious by todays standards but back in the early 1900's the structure of light and matter was only beginning to be understood.

For his time I think he contributed a lot to science and probably deserved a nobel prize