Millikan, Robert Andrews, Gale, Henry Gordon · Boston : Ginn and Co. · leaf 506
any electrified body on which theyfall to slowly lose its charge. To demonstrate the existence of this property let any X-ray bulb beset in operation within 5 or 10 feet of a charged gold-leaf electroscope.The leaves at once begin to fall together. The reason for this is that the X rays shake loose… … Sir Jo.skih Thomson (1856- ) Most conspicuous figure in the development of the physics of the electron;born in Manchester, England; educated at Cambridge University; Cavendishprofessor of experimental physics in Cambridge since 1884; author of a number ofbooks, the most important of which is the…
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