It put to rest a long history of experimentation seeking to determine whether or not a “cathode ray” as the electron ... CC 4.0. The suite of experiments that led Thomson to identify the ...

There was debate over whether the cathode ray was a wave phenomenon like light or a stream of negatively charged particles. JJ Thomson effectively resolved the debate in 1897 by performing a clever ...

In 1897, English physicist Joseph John Thomson discovered electrons while conducting experiments with cathode-ray tubes. He called electrons “corpuscles”. Cathode Ray Tube. Source: Chemistry ...

In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays while experimenting with cathode rays and crystals, leading to the realization that invisible rays could cause fluorescence and penetrate lightproof ...

The video below was made by Thomson Consumer Electronics, once a major supplier of CRTs to the television and computer monitor industry, and appears directed to its customers as a way of showing ...

The experiment is described in a study published ... The researchers used the world’s largest and most powerful X-ray laser: the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) located ...

A schematic depiction of the synchrotron X-ray experiment used in this research at the APS to ... Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, which have a sulfur cathode and a lithium metal anode, are among the ...

Physics experiments have changed the ... But exactly what caused this effect, called a cathode ray, was unclear. Then, in 1897, physicist J.J. Thomson discovered that by applying a magnetic ...