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Mar 17, 2014
The cathode ray tube experiment performed by J.J. Thomson demonstrated the existence of the electron.
Scientist had believed in the existence of a negative particle for some time. So much so, that George Stoney (1891) proposed the name electron for the particle. However, it wasn't till about 1898 that the electron was shown to exist by J.J. Thomson.
