Discovery Channel - Discovery of the Daytag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-13599402009-04-30T03:01:00-04:00Read about new discoveries everyday!TypePadStick to Sciencetag:typepad.com,2003:post-660091232009-04-30T03:01:00-04:002009-04-30T03:01:00-04:00April 30, 1897: British physicist Joseph Thomson stuns the audience at the Royal Institution when he announces he’s discovered a particle a thousand times smaller than an atom. He calls them corpuscles. We call them electrons. He suggests that electrons...jack huber<p>April 30, 1897: British physicist Joseph Thomson stuns the audience at the Royal Institution when he announces he’s discovered a particle a thousand times smaller than an atom. He calls them corpuscles. We call them electrons. He suggests that electrons are like plums spread through plum pudding. He was wrong about that. <a href="http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Te-Va/Thomson-Joseph-John.html">See how he made the discovery</a>.</p><div class="feedflare">
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