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Particles and interactions

Particles and interactions

100 years of the electron: from discovery to application

07 Apr 1997

Joseph John Thomson – universally known as J J – discovered the electron 100 years ago this month and Physics World celebrates the centenary of the discovery with four articles of different aspects of the first fundamental particle

J J Thomson Thomson grew up in humble surroundings near Manchester, where his parents had intended h

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