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The invention of the cathode ray tube (also known as the cinescope) by Karl Ferdinand Braun in the period 1895–1897 was an important step in the development of particle and ion accelerators. The cathode ray tube can be considered the first particle accelerator that used a high electric potential difference. Its development led to the discovery of the electron by Joseph J. Thomson in 1897. In 1911, Ernest Rutherford (the father of nuclear physics) and colleagues proposed the idea that the atomic nucleus was surrounded by electrons, which was a different concept to the model proposed by Thomson.
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Nunes, M.d. (2014). Physics. In: Hadron Therapy Physics and Simulations. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8899-6_3
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