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  Suggested all matter was made of tiny spheres and called them atoms.
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  found that atoms could have a smaller negative particle he called an electron
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  Thompson develops the idea that an atom was made up of electrons scattered within an elastic sphere surrounded by a soup of positive charge
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  Created the current model of the atom
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  A solid model that cannot be seperated into any smaller pieces. The smallest piece of possible matter
