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  2. J. J. Thomson - Wikipedia

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    Plaque commemorating J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron outside the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge Autochrome portrait by Georges Chevalier, 1923 Thomson c. 1920–1925 Thomson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) [ 24 ] [ 48 ] and appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish ...

  3. Plum pudding model - Wikipedia

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    By 1890, J.J. Thomson had his own version called the "nebular atom" hypothesis, in which atoms were composed of immaterial vortices and suggested similarities between the arrangement of vortices and periodic regularity found among the chemical elements. [6] Thomson's discovery of the electron in 1897 changed his views.

  4. Thomson problem - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. History of atomic theory - Wikipedia

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    Atoms were thought to be the smallest possible division of matter until 1899 when J. J. Thomson discovered the electron through his work on cathode rays. [38]: 86 [5]: 364 A Crookes tube is a sealed glass container in which two electrodes are separated by a vacuum.

  6. Timeline of particle discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Electron discovered by J. J. Thomson [4] 1899 Alpha particle discovered by Ernest Rutherford in uranium radiation [5] 1900 Gamma ray (a high-energy photon) discovered by Paul Villard in uranium decay [6] 1911 Atomic nucleus identified by Ernest Rutherford, based on scattering observed by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden [7] 1919

  7. Electron - Wikipedia

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    [34]: 364 [5] In the same year Emil Wiechert and Walter Kaufmann also calculated the e/m ratio but did not take the step of interpreting their results as showing a new particle, while J. J. Thomson would subsequently in 1899 give estimates for the electron charge and mass as well: e ~ 6.8 × 10 −10 esu and m ~ 3 × 10 −26 g [44] [45]

  8. Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics - Wikipedia

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    1897 J. J. Thomson discovered the electron; 1897 Emil Wiechert, Walter Kaufmann and J.J. Thomson discover the electron; 1898 Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the existence of the radioactive elements radium and polonium in their research of pitchblende; 1898 William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover neon, and negatively charged beta particles

  9. Crookes tube - Wikipedia

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    The debate was resolved in 1897 when J. J. Thomson measured the mass to charge ratio of the cathode rays, showing they were made of particles, but were around 1800 times lighter than the lightest atom, hydrogen. Therefore, they were not atoms, but a new particle, the first subatomic particle to be discovered, which was later named the electron ...