... far from complete. In other words, people needed to investigate the electronic science more deeply. 1 Thomson's publication of the "plum pudding" model of the atom in 1904. In 1897, J.J. Thomson discovered the electron, the first subatomic particle. He also was the first to attempt to incorporate the electron into a structure for the atom. The internal structure of the atom had been a source of speculation for thousands of years. The Greeks taught that the atom was solid, as did Dalton. Although Dalton did allow for the fact that there might be a sub-atomic structure of which he was unaware. Thomson faced two major problems: (1) how to account for the mass of the atom when the electron was only about 1/1000 the mass of the hydrogen atom (the more modern figure is 1/1836) and (2) how to create a neutral atom when the only particle available was negatively ...

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