But luckily for us, virologists have a tool to render the pathogen quite visible, thanks to British physicist Joseph John Thomson. In 1897, Thomson discovered the electron, a particle too teensy ...

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J." Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897. Thomson, 1906 Nobel Prize winner in physics, was the father of another Nobel Prize winner in physics (George) and teacher of no less than seven ...