Born #onthisday in 1856, Joseph John Thomson (JJ Thompson) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his for his work on the conduction of electricity in gases, which included discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.
"Kathy Loves Physics" has a nice episode on the history of Thompson and the discovery of the electron here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3c77C-69wg.
#physics #electron #jjthompson
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