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    J. J. Thomson Cathode Ray Tubes

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    Cathode rays were discovered to be composed of electrons, a previously unknown negatively charged particle. In 1897, J.J. Thomson showed through experiments using cathode ray tubes that cathode rays are made up of particles around 1,800 times lighter than hydrogen, proving they were a new subatomic particle which he named "electrons". Thomson's discovery resolved a debate around the nature of cathode rays and established electrons as the particles that carry electric currents in metal wires and the negative charge of atoms.

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    Cathode rays were discovered to be composed of electrons, a previously unknown negatively charged particle. In 1897, J.J. Thomson showed through experiments using cathode ray tubes that cathode rays are made up of particles around 1,800 times lighter than hydrogen, proving they were a new subatomic particle which he named "electrons". Thomson's discovery resolved a debate around the nature of cathode rays and established electrons as the particles that carry electric currents in metal wires and the negative charge of atoms.

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    Cathode rays were discovered to be composed of electrons, a previously unknown negatively charged particle. In 1897, J.J. Thomson showed through experiments using cathode ray tubes that cathode rays are made up of particles around 1,800 times lighter than hydrogen, proving they were a new subatomic particle which he named "electrons". Thomson's discovery resolved a debate around the nature of cathode rays and established electrons as the particles that carry electric currents in metal wires and the negative charge of atoms.

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    HOW ELECTRONS DISCOVERED USING CATHODE-RAY TUBES

    Electrons were first discovered as the constituents of cathode rays. In 1897 British
    physicist J. J. Thomson showed the rays were composed of a previously unknown negatively
    charged particle, which was later named the electron. Cathode ray tubes (CRTs) use a focused
    beam of electrons deflected by electric or magnetic fields to create the image in a classic
    television set.

    At this time, atoms were the smallest particles known, and were believed to be
    indivisible. What carried electric currents was a mystery. During the last quarter of the 19th
    century many experiments were done to determine what cathode rays were. There were two
    theories. Crookes and Arthur Schuster believed they were particles of "radiant matter", that is,
    electrically charged atoms. German scientists Eilhard Wiedemann, Heinrich Hertz and Goldstein
    believed they were "aether waves", some new form of electromagnetic radiation, and were
    separate from what carried the electric current through the tube.

    The debate was resolved in 1897 when J. J. Thomson measured the mass of cathode rays,
    showing they were made of particles, but were around 1800 times lighter than the lightest atom,
    hydrogen. Therefore, they were not atoms, but a new particle, the first subatomic particle to be
    discovered, which he originally called "corpuscle" but was later named electron, after particles
    postulated by George Johnstone Stoney in 1874. He also showed they were identical with
    particles given off by photoelectric and radioactive materials.[4] It was quickly recognized that
    they are the particles that carry electric currents in metal wires, and carry the negative electric
    charge of the atom.

    Thomson was given the 1906 Nobel prize for physics for this work. Philipp Lenard also
    contributed a great deal to cathode ray theory, winning the Nobel prize for physics in 1905 for
    his research on cathode rays and their properties.

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