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The electron is a negatively charged subatomic particle with elemental charge e = 1.60218 × 10−19 C and mass m e = 9.10938 × 10−31 kg. The electron was discovered by British physicist J.J. Thomson in 1897. At the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, J.J. Thomson was experimenting with a cathode ray tube (CRT), investigating a long-standing puzzle known as “cathode rays.”
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Zuo, J.M., Spence, J.C.H. (2017). Introduction and Historical Background. In: Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6607-3_1
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