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ne hundred years ago, amidst glowing glass tubes and the hum of electricity, the British physicist J.J. Thomson was venturing into the interior of the atom. ... odern ideas and technologies based on the electron, leading to television and the computer and much else, evolved through many difficult steps.
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However, people quickly realized that electric current was in fact made of moving electrons. Since electricity is the lifeblood of everything from computers to phones to microwaves, the electron turned out to be interesting to just about everybody.
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His discovery of the electron won the Nobel Prize in 1906 and he was knighted two years later. Thomson was described by Rutherford as having "a most radiating smile, … when he is scoring off anyone."
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He decided to undertake this study was caused by the discovery that cathode rays could be abberate by magnetic field. If they were electromagnetic waves their aberration could be explained by granular, ... So the q of electron was bigger than the q of hydrogen or the m of electron was smaller then the m of hydrogen.
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Soon the new particle was called the "electron". In his work published in1898 Thomson affirmed that electrons were parts of all atoms and that cathode rays were electrons separated from atoms. The idea of indivisible atom failed.
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The golden jubilee of the Dutch Physical Society in April 1971 was concluded with a lecture by Samuel Goudsmit on the history of the discovery of the electron spin. Actually, his could hardly be called a polished lecture;
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The discovery note in Naturwissenschaften is dated Saturday 17 October 1925. One day earlier Ehrenfest had written to Lorentz to make an appointment for the coming Monday to discuss a "very witty idea" of ... When Lorentz pointed out that the idea of a spinning electron would be incompatible with classical electrodynamics,
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As Thomson later wrote in the paper reporting his discovery of the electron, "The most diverse opinions are held as to these rays; according to the almost unanimous opinion of German physicists they are due to some process in the ether to which.
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J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron in 1897 showed us that the atom can be split into even smaller parts. His discovery was the first step towards a detailed model of the atom.
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