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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 ] [ 49 ] and appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Thomson scattering - Wikipedia

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    Thomson scattering is a model for the effect of electromagnetic fields on electrons when the field energy is much less than the rest mass of the electron .In the model the electric field of the incident wave accelerates the charged particle, causing it, in turn, to emit radiation at the same frequency as the incident wave, and thus the wave is scattered.

  6. Subatomic particle - Wikipedia

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    The negatively charged electron has a mass of about ⁠ 1 / 1836 ⁠ of that of a hydrogen atom. The remainder of the hydrogen atom's mass comes from the positively charged proton . The atomic number of an element is the number of protons in its nucleus.

  7. History of atomic theory - Wikipedia

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    In 1898, J. J. Thomson found that the positive charge of a hydrogen ion was equal to the negative charge of a single electron. [ 72 ] In an April 1911 paper concerning his studies on alpha particle scattering, Ernest Rutherford estimated that the charge of an atomic nucleus, expressed as a multiplier of hydrogen's nuclear charge ( q e ), is ...

  8. Mass-to-charge ratio - Wikipedia

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    When charged particles move in electric and magnetic fields the following two laws apply: Lorentz force law: = (+),; Newton's second law of motion: = =; where F is the force applied to the ion, m is the mass of the particle, a is the acceleration, Q is the electric charge, E is the electric field, and v × B is the cross product of the ion's velocity and the magnetic flux density.

  9. Cathode ray - Wikipedia

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    Cathode rays or electron beams (e-beam) are streams of electrons observed in discharge tubes. If an evacuated glass tube is equipped with two electrodes and a voltage is applied, glass behind the positive electrode is observed to glow, due to electrons emitted from the cathode (the electrode connected to the negative terminal of the voltage ...