“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 ...
Sir Joseph John Thomson, a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle that was discovered. Thomson showed that cathode ...
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Today, the electron is a fundamental subatomic particle that carries a negative electrical charge. Electrons, along with protons and neutrons, make up atoms. English experimental physicist Joseph John ...