The Father/Son History of Electrons
And the Impact on Quantum Technologies
Two Nobel Prize winners in the same family. Winning for the same field of endeavour but for different properties of electrons - resulting in the Wave-Particle Duality. In today’s substack, I explore the contributions to the study of electrons by Joseph John Thomson and his son GP Thomson and their impact on quantum technologies.
The study of electrons (a…
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