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“We shall call such particles corpuscles,” announced the physicist J.J. Thomson, during a lecture at the Royal Institution in London, on 30 April 1897. “The atoms of the ordinary elements are made up ...

IT is not easy even to recapture any adequate sense of the influence which J. J. Thomson exerted on science in schools in the earlier days of this century. Electrons and J. J. Thomson were spoken of ...

This apparatus, held in London's Science Museum, has some significant purpose — or curiosity value — in the history of physics. Can you guess what it is? In 1937, George Paget Thomson followed in his ...

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