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  2. J. J. Thomson - Wikipedia

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    The cathode-ray tube by which J. J. Thomson demonstrated that cathode rays could be deflected by a magnetic field, and that their negative charge was not a separate phenomenon While supporters of the aetherial theory accepted the possibility that negatively charged particles are produced in Crookes tubes , [ citation needed ] they believed that ...

  3. Plum pudding model - Wikipedia

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    Thomson's model marks the moment when the development of atomic theory passed from chemists to physicists. While atomic theory was widely accepted by chemists by the end of the 19th century, physicists remained skeptical because the atomic model lacked any properties which concerned their field, such as electric charge, magnetic moment, volume, or absolute mass.

  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. Cathode-ray tube - Wikipedia

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    In 1897, J. J. Thomson succeeded in measuring the mass-to-charge ratio of cathode rays, showing that they consisted of negatively charged particles smaller than atoms, the first "subatomic particles", which had already been named electrons by Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney in 1891.

  6. Thomson (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The thomson (symbol: Th) is a unit that has appeared infrequently in scientific literature relating to the field of mass spectrometry as a unit of mass-to-charge ratio.The unit was proposed by R. Graham Cooks and Alan L. Rockwood [1] naming it in honour of J. J. Thomson who measured the mass-to-charge ratio of electrons and ions.

  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. [ 70 ] 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. Subatomic particle - Wikipedia

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    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] Proven by Rutherford and Thomas Royds in 1907 to be helium nuclei. Rutherford won the Nobel Prize for ...

  9. Electron - Wikipedia

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    In 1897, the British physicist J. J. Thomson, with his colleagues John S. Townsend and H. A. Wilson, performed experiments indicating that cathode rays really were unique particles, rather than waves, atoms or molecules as was believed earlier. [5] By 1899 he showed that their charge-to-mass ratio, e/m, was independent of cathode material. He ...