1 Particle Bios Topics
1.1 Overview
Introductory content for Particle Bios.
1.2 Posts
1804 atom
Our first particle from J.J. Thomson…the electron.
1881 electron
…and his student, Rutherford, finds a surprise…the beta particle.
1899 beta
Rutherford gets his hands on uranium…the alpha particle.
1899 alpha
Villard gets into the act…gamma rays.
1900 gamma
Max Planck finds a desparate way out…his “quanta.”
1900 quanta
Albert Einstein takes quanta all the way…the photon.
1905 photon
Rutherford again! The first controled particle collisions reveal the nucleus:
1911 nucleus
Rutherford does it again…the proton:
1913 proton
Rutherford’s lab does it again, James Chadwick…the neutron:
1920 neutron
A complete surprise from Paul Dirac…the positron:
1928 positron
Pauli has an unserious idea…the neutrino:
1930 electron neutrino “Who ordered that?”…the muon:
1937 muon
When did “particles” become a scientific thing? Maybe with atoms.