"The difficulties which would have to be overcome to make several of the preceding experiments conclusive are so great as to be almost insurmountable."
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J. J. Thomson
Sir Joseph John Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940), often known as J. J. Thomson, was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, credited with the discovery and identification of the electron, the discovery of the first subatomic particle, isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer.
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