Definition:Electron/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Electron
The electron was discovered by Joseph John Thomson, who measured the Electron Charge to Mass Ratio in $1897$.
This happened as a result of several decades of work by many scientists.
Sources
- 1958: C.A. Coulson: Electricity (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {I}$: Preliminary Survey: $\S 1$. Electrostatics
- 1978: A.P. French and Edwin F. Taylor: An Introduction to Quantum Physics ... (previous) ... (next): $1$: Simple models of the atom: $\text {1-3}$: The Electrical Structure of Matter