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  1. The first molecular models for an electromagnetic theory of dispersion and some aspects of physics at the end of the nineteenth century.Bruno Carazza & Nadia Robotti - 1996 - Annals of Science 53 (6):587-607.
    The first models for an electromagnetic theory of dispersion are presented and an attempt is made to demonstrate the important role played by study of this phenomenon at the end of the nineteenth century. As well as indicating the need to have a better understanding of the microscopic properties of matter, dispersion also contributed to the discussion over the nature of X-rays and was fundamental for introduction of Lorentz's electron theory.
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  • Cathode Rays.J. J. Thomson - 2010 - Philosophical Magazine 90 (sup1):25-29.
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  • Zeeman's discovery and the mass of the electron.Nadia Robotti & Francesca Pastorino - 1998 - Annals of Science 55 (2):161-183.
    In an article published recently in this journal, one of us reconstructed how in 1899 J. J. Thomson, after having measured the mass-to-charge ratio of the corpuscle , achieved a measurement of its charge and consequently an estimate of its mass, obtaining in this manner ‘direct proof of the existence of particles smaller than the hydrogen atom’. In this paper, starting with an analysis of Zeeman's first measurements on the widening of spectral lines in a magnetic field, we show that (...)
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  • Collected Papers.Colin McGinn - 1988 - Philosophical Review 97 (2):278.
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  • Corpuscles, Electrons and Cathode Rays: J.J. Thomson and the ‘Discovery of the Electron’.Isobel Falconer - 1987 - British Journal for the History of Science 20 (3):241-276.
    On 30 April, 1897, J. J. Thomson announced the results of his previous four months' experiments on cathode rays. The rays, he suggested, were negatively charged subatomic particles. He called the particles ‘corpuscles’. They have since been re-named ‘electrons’ and Thomson has been hailed as their ‘discoverer’. Contrary to the accounts of most later writers, I show that this discovery was not the outcome of a concern with the nature of cathode rays which had occupied Thomson since 1881 and had (...)
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  • A Hundred Years Of Spectroscopy: The fifty-third Robert Boyle Lecture, 1951: Oxford University Scientific Club.Herbert Dingle - 1963 - British Journal for the History of Science 1 (3):199-216.
    A hundred years ago the science of spectroscopy, though not yet christened, may be said to have attained its majority and to be just entering on its period of full adult development. It was born, of course, with Newton's explanation of the formation of the spectrum, and for many years thereafter little of importance was added to what he had discovered. It was not, in fact, until the nineteenth century that anything of outstanding importance occurred, and then, in 1802, Wollaston (...)
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  • A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity.Edmund Whittaker - 1952 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 3 (10):204-207.
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