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J.J. Thomson

J.J. Thomson

British physicist

Two 15-foot (4.6-metre) spherical terminals of the Van de Graaff direct current electrostatic generator, New Bedford, Mass., 1935.

Robert Jemison Van de Graaff

American physicist and inventor

Karl Taylor Compton

American physicist

Robert H. Dicke

American physicist

Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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