Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics by Jed Z. Buchwald

Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics

Jed Z. Buchwald

528 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced

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In the mid to late 1890s, J. J. Thomson and colleagues at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory conducted experiments on cathode rays (a form of radiation produced within evacuated glass vessels subjected to electric fields)--the results of which some ...

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