Sir Joseph John Thomson, a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle that was discovered. Thomson showed that cathode ...
“We shall call such particles corpuscles,” announced the physicist J.J. Thomson, during a lecture at the Royal Institution in London, on 30 April 1897. “The atoms of the ordinary elements are made up ...
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