"Cathode Rays... he adheres to the hypothesis that the rays are due to the violent projection of the negatively charged particles from the cathode. In another abstract from presumably the same lecture, he states that in the cathode discharge the matter is in something beyond the ordinary state and that the carriers of the discharge in a cathode ray are not atoms but something very much smaller; his conclusions are that the particles carrying the charge must be in a much more finely divided state than the ordinary molecule and possibly may be the primordial element; the numerical ration of the mass of the particle to the charge carried is about 1,100 times less than that deduced electrolytically for the hydrogen ion, showing that either the charge must be very great or the particle very small, and it is the latter which he thinks is the case."
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The Electrical World, Vol. XXIX (Jan 2-Jun 26, 1897) citing J. J. Thomson. London Elec. Eng., May 7.
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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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