Quote#Politics & Power
It follows on the hypothesis that the cathode rays are charged…
Quote byJoseph John Thomson · 1856–1940
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Royal Institution Lecture (April 30, 1897) as quoted by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1910)..
English (original)
it follows on the hypothesis that the cathode rays are charged particles moving with high velocities, that the size of the carriers must be small compared with the dimensions of ordinary atoms or molecules. The assumption of a state of matter more finely subdivided than the atom of an element is a somewhat startling one
— Joseph John Thomson
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