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“If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they would behave exactly like the cathode rays.”

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Joseph John Thomson

Joseph John Thomson was a renowned physicist known for his contributions to atomic theory and the discovery of the electron. He proposed the 'plum pudding model' to describe atomic structure and discovered the electron, laying the foundation for modern physics. more

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