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Century-Old Challenge Of “Atomic Diffraction” Finally Solved Thanks To Graphene
For thousands of years, thinkers argued about whether light is made of particles or waves. At the beginning of the 20th ...
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Sir Joseph John Thomson, the Great English Physicist
Appropriately enough, one of Sir J, J. Thomson's earliest experiments was the repetition of a measurement which strongly supported Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory, namely, the determination of ...
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Discovery of the Electron
Others thought the rays were streams of particles. J.J. Thomson decided to find out for sure. Thomson was a physics professor at Cambridge University in the UK. He placed cathode tubes in electric ...
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Our Nobel Prize winners
JJ Thomson studied electrical discharges in gases. Following the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity his imaginative work inspired many young researchers, including Ernest Rutherford, WL Bragg and ...
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Time and ...?
Can you guess what it is? In 1937, George Paget Thomson followed in his father's footsteps to win the Nobel Prize for Physics. Paradoxically, his work made apparent the wave nature of electrons ...