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THE present volume is an expansion of six lectures delivered by; Prof. J. J. Thomson in his capacity of professor at: the Royal Institution. It is a simple and clear account of the development of the corpuscular, or, as sortie prefer to call it, the electronic, theory, of matter to explain the passage of electricity through metals and gases. The last two chapters are devoted to consideration of the properties of model atoms built up of corpuscles, and the evidence in favour of the view that the number of the corpuscles in an atom is about the same as its atomic weight in terms of hydrogen.
The Corpuscular Theory of Matter.
By Prof. J. J. Thomson. Pp. vii + 172. (London: Archibald Constable and Co, Ltd., 1907.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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R., E. The Corpuscular Theory of Matter . Nature 77, 505–506 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077505a0
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