Thomson

//ˈtɒm.sən//

"Thomson" in a Sentence (3 examples)

JJ Thomson was an English scientist.

Thomson found out that atoms are indivisible.

J. J. Thomson and his son George Thomson were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics: the former in 1906 for demonstrating that the electron is a particle, and the latter in 1937 for showing that the electron is a wave.

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