Tag: Cavendish Laboratory
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The Legacy of JJ Thomson: Discovery of the Electron and Mentorship of Nobel Laureates
### The Legacy of JJ Thomson: Discovery of the Electron and Mentorship of Nobel Laureates In the annals of physics, few names shine as brightly as that of JJ Thomson. On a chilly evening in 1897, in the hallowed halls of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, he made a groundbreaking discovery that would change…
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The Legacy of JJ Thomson: Discoverer of the Electron
On a chilly evening in 1897, the dimly lit halls of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge were alive with the spirit of scientific inquiry. There, a young physicist named Joseph John Thomson, widely known as JJ Thomson, was about to change the course of modern physics forever. Leaning over a glowing glass tube, he observed…