Historical Figure
J. J. Thomson
1856–1940
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1856
1897
Event
J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
April 30 → 1940
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