J.J. Thomson decided to find out for sure ... the lifeblood of everything from computers to phones to microwaves, the electron turned out to be interesting to just about everybody.

In 1898 these experiments culminated in the discovery of the “electron,” or as Sir J. J. Thomson himself calls it, the “corpuscle.” This discovery has ushered in a new era in science ...

The ashes of physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson lie in the nave of Westminster Abbey near ... He was elected Master of Trinity in 1918. His discovery of what we now called electrons, announced in 1897, ...