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was the first to suggest that the fundamental unit was over 1000 times smaller than an atom, suggesting the subatomic particles now known as electrons
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In May–June 1897 Thomson investigated whether or not the rays could be deflected by an electric field
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Won the Hughes Medal for his numerous contributions to electric science, especially in reference to the phenomena of electric discharge in gases", and has since been awarded 105 times
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In 1917, solar astronomer George Ellery Hale convinced Millikan to begin spending several months each year
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Sir James Chadwick CH FRS was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. He was the head of the British scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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After his death in 1937, he was honoured by being interred with the greatest scientists of the United Kingdom, near Sir Isaac Newton's tomb in Westminster Abbey. The chemical element rutherfordium (element 104) was named after him in 1997.
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Rober Miilkan died December 19, 1953
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