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  2. 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

  3. Timeline of particle discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1932 Antielectron (or positron), the first antiparticle, discovered by Carl D. Anderson [13] (proposed by Paul Dirac in 1927 and by Ettore Majorana in 1928) : 1937 Muon (or mu lepton) discovered by Seth Neddermeyer, Carl D. Anderson, J.C. Street, and E.C. Stevenson, using cloud chamber measurements of cosmic rays [14] (it was mistaken for the pion until 1947 [15])

  4. Period 2 element - Wikipedia

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    A period 2 element is one of the chemical elements in the second row (or period) of the periodic table of the chemical elements.The periodic table is laid out in rows to illustrate recurring (periodic) trends in the chemical behavior of the elements as their atomic number increases; a new row is started when chemical behavior begins to repeat, creating columns of elements with similar properties.

  5. Timeline of physical chemistry - Wikipedia

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    These rays, which he discovered but were later called cathode rays by Eugen Goldstein, produced a fluorescence when they hit a tube's glass walls and, when interrupted by a solid object, cast a shadow. 1869: William Crookes: Invented the Crookes tube. 1873: Willoughby Smith: Discovered the photoelectric effect in metals not in solution (i.e ...

  6. Discovery of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    M. Perey: Perey discovered it as a decay product of 227 Ac. [178] Francium was the last element to be discovered in nature, rather than synthesized in the lab, although four of the "synthetic" elements that were discovered later (plutonium, neptunium, astatine, and promethium) were eventually found in trace amounts in nature as well. [179]

  7. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    2012: Higgs boson is discovered at CERN (confirmed to 99.999% certainty) 2012: Photonic molecules are discovered at MIT; 2014: Exotic hadrons are discovered at the LHCb; 2014: Photonic metamaterials are discovered to make passive daytime radiative cooling possible by Raman et al. [135] [136] 2016: The LIGO team detects gravitational waves from ...

  8. Electron - Wikipedia

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    where m e is the mass of electron. For example, the Stanford linear accelerator can accelerate an electron to roughly 51 GeV. [146] Since an electron behaves as a wave, at a given velocity it has a characteristic de Broglie wavelength. This is given by λ e = h/p where h is the Planck constant and p is the momentum. [60]

  9. History of subatomic physics - Wikipedia

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    Atomic orbitals of period 2 elements: 1s 2s 2p (3 items). All complete subshells (including 2p) are inherently spherically symmetric, but it is convenient to assign to "distinct" p-electrons these two-lobed shapes.