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Life, the Universe and the Electron

Another exhibition to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the electron by J. J. Thomson in 1897 by The Science Museum, London and the Institute of Physics.
http://www.iop.org/Physics/Electron/Exhibition/
The site contains information about the electron. There is a description of the current models of an electron, a timeline of the important discoveries about the electron and the atoms, uses of the electron, etc. Contains lots of interesting links to other sites including CERN.

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