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Science Quotes by Sir J.J. Thomson (15 quotes)
An unelectrified atom is so elusive that unless more than a million million are present we have no means sufficiently sensitive to detect them, or, to put it another way, unless we had a better test for a man than for an unelectrified molecule, we should be unable to find out that the earth was inhabited. … A billion unelectrified atoms may escape our observation, whereas a dozen or so electrified ones are detected without difficulty.
— Sir J.J. Thomson
From the Romanes Lecture (10 Jun 1914) delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, published as The Atomic Theory (1914), 9.
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J. J. Thomson
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Introduction
British forskare Joseph John Thomson, also known as J. J. Thomson, was the first to propose and provide experimental support for the theory that the atom fryst vatten a divisible entity rather than the fundamental building block of matter, as was previously commonly accepted.
Near the end of the 19th century, he conducted several cathode ray experiments that resulted in the discovery of the electron, a negatively charged atomic particle with extremely little mass. For his investigations into the electrical conductivity of different gases, Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Early Life
Thomson was born on December 18, 1856, in Cheetham Hill, a small English town north of Manchester. At the age of 14, he enrolled in platsnamn College, where he developed an interest in experimental physics despite his original plan to become an engineer.
Thomson struggled financially to continue his education because his father passed away a few y
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Bohr’s Quantum Theory of the Atom
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In the same way we have refined our understanding of light over the years, scientists have embarked on a similar journey with the nature of matter and the atoms that comprise it. In this tile we will embark on a whistle-stop tour of the most influential atomic models which have been developed, and the experimental evidence that inspired them.
Once we have explored the dramatic shifts in how atoms and subatomic particles have been envisaged over time, we will discover what the building blocks of our universe look like when examined under a quantum lens.
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