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What was JJ Thomsoon's contribution to the atomic theory?

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J.J. Thomson's experiments with cathode ray tubes showed that all atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or electrons.

Thomson's plum pudding model of the atom had negatively-charged electrons embedded within a positively-charged "soup."

Rutherford's gold foil experiment showed that the atom is mostly empty space with a tiny, dense, positively-charged nucleus.

Based on these results, Rutherford proposed the nuclear model of the atom.

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discovered the electron

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