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Thomson's prize-winning master's work, Treatise on the motion of vortex rings, shows his early interest in atomic structure. [4] In it, Thomson mathematically described the motions of William Thomson's vortex theory of atoms. [18] Thomson published a number of papers addressing both mathematical and experimental issues of electromagnetism.
The Thomson problem is a natural consequence of J. J. Thomson's plum pudding model in the absence of its uniform positive background charge. [ 12 ] "No fact discovered about the atom can be trivial, nor fail to accelerate the progress of physical science, for the greater part of natural philosophy is the outcome of the structure and mechanism ...
Thomson's model was consistent with the experimental evidence available at the time. Thomson studied beta particle scattering which showed small angle deflections modelled as interactions of the particle with many atoms in succession. Each interaction of the particle with the electrons of the atom and the positive background sphere would lead ...
Thomson's experiments with cathode rays (1897): J. J. Thomson's cathode ray tube experiments (discovers the electron and its negative charge). Eötvös experiment (1909): Loránd Eötvös publishes the result of the second series of experiments, clearly demonstrating that inertial and gravitational mass are one and the same.
Charles Haldat made some penetrating criticisms of the reproducibility of Rumford's results [15] and it is possible to see the whole experiment as somewhat tendentious. [16] However, the experiment inspired the work of James Prescott Joule in the 1840s. Joule's more exact measurements were pivotal in establishing the kinetic theory at the ...
Thomson's model was incomplete, it could not predict any of the known properties of the atom such as emission spectra or valencies. In 1906, Robert A. Millikan and Harvey Fletcher performed the oil drop experiment in which they measured the charge of an electron to be about -1.6 × 10 −19 , a value now defined as -1 e .
Eötvös experiment: Loránd Eötvös: Measurement Ratio between inertial and gravitational mass: 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment: Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley: Negative result Luminiferous aether: 1897 Thomson experiment: J. J. Thomson: Discovery Electron: 1901 Trouton–Noble experiment: Frederick Thomas Trouton and H. R. Noble ...
1914 - James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz conduct the Franck–Hertz experiment demonstrating quantization of atomic ionization energy. 1919 – Arthur Eddington: Our sun as gravitational lens, a proof of the theory of relativity. 1920 – Otto Stern and Walter Gerlach conduct the Stern–Gerlach experiment, which demonstrates particle spin.