International Conference on the Quantum Interactions of the Free Electron: J. J. Thomson and the discovery of the electron Free

May I say that I am particularly glad and happy that my father's hundredth anniversary of his birth should be celebrated here in this way. My father had a great affection for America at all times, and of all the places in America, he best knew and loved Baltimore; and that it should be the University of Maryland which is honouring him in this way is to me a very great pleasure, as it would have been to him.