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Biography Joseph John Thomson was born in Manchester, on April 18 Married Rose Elisabeth in 1890, and had two children He was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize in Physics He passed away on August 30, 1940
Famous Discoveries Measured how a magnetic field and an electric field deflected a cathode ray tube, and concluded that cathode rays are made of negatively charged particles and that they come from the cathode, the negative end of the cathode ray. Thomson named these negatively charged particles electrons Discovered that an electron’s electrical charge is 1.76x10^8 coulombs per gram
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