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In the spring of 1897 J.J. Thomson demonstrated that the beam of glowing
matter in a cathode-ray tube was not made of light waves, as "the almost
unanimous opinion of German physicists" held. Rather, cathode rays were
negatively charged particles boiling off the negative cathode and attracted to
the positive anode. These particles could be deflected by an electric field and
bent into curved paths by a magnetic field. They were much lighter than
hydrogen atoms and were identical "what ever the gas through which the discharge
passes" if gas was introduced into the tube. Since they were lighter than the
lightest k....
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