dec 18, 1856 - J.J Thompson
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-Was born in Cheetham Hill, England.
-He prevailed that the atom is the smallest fundamental unit.
-The experiments he performed to prove this was using a cathode ray tube, which is a vacuum-sealed tube with a cathode and anode on one end that creates a beam of electrons travelling towards the other end of the tube.
- Thomson won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics, among many accolades.
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