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  2. J. J. Thomson - Wikipedia

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    Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.

  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. Timeline of particle discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Discovery of the ultraviolet radiation below 200 nm, named vacuum ultraviolet (later identified as photons) because it is strongly absorbed by air, by the German physicist Victor Schumann [2] 1895 X-ray produced by Wilhelm Röntgen (later identified as photons) [3] 1897 Electron discovered by J. J. Thomson [4] 1899

  5. 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

  6. Cavendish Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    Several important early physics discoveries were made here, including the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson (1897) the Townsend discharge by John Sealy Townsend, and the development of the cloud chamber by C.T.R. Wilson. Ernest Rutherford became Director of the Cavendish Laboratory in 1919.

  7. History of atomic theory - Wikipedia

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    Thomson further explained that ions are atoms that have a surplus or shortage of electrons. [51] Thomson's model is popularly known as the plum pudding model, based on the idea that the electrons are distributed throughout the sphere of positive charge with the same density as raisins in a plum pudding. Neither Thomson nor his colleagues ever ...

  8. Subatomic particle - Wikipedia

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    Discovered Comments electron e −: elementary G. Johnstone Stoney (1874) [14] J. J. Thomson (1897) [15] Minimum unit of electrical charge, for which Stoney suggested the name in 1891. [16] First subatomic particle to be identified. [17] alpha particle α: composite (atomic nucleus) never: Ernest Rutherford (1899) [18]

  9. Timeline of physical chemistry - Wikipedia

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    J. J. Thomson: Articulated the plum pudding model of the atom that was later experimentally disproved by Rutherford (1907). 1904: Richard Abegg: Noted the pattern that the numerical difference between the maximum positive valence, such as +6 for H 2 SO 4, and the maximum negative valence, such as −2 for H 2 S, of an element tends to be eight ...