ITHACA, NEW YORK – An apocryphal story sometimes heard among physicists concerns a toast, proposed by his Cambridge University colleagues, to J. J. Thomson’s discovery of the electron in 1897: “To the electron: may it never be of use to anyone!”
ITHACA, NEW YORK – Les collègues de Sir Joseph Thomson de l’université de Cambridge, à l’annonce de sa découverte de l’électron en 1897, lui auraient porté ce toast: “A l’électron!