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Noun: Sir Joseph John Thomson
  1. English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)
    - J. J. Thomson, Thomson, Joseph John Thomson, J.J. Thomson

Type of: physicist

Encyclopedia: Sir Joseph John Thomson, OM, FRS