Daniel Marks on Nostr: nprofile1q…2gtst He measured e/m which is the electron charge divided by the ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqks70cf3wt30sn2gqjnw4zjtd7ztwnnaq4fy0azpdvtlthg7eqrpqr2gtst (nprofile…gtst) He measured e/m which is the electron charge divided by the electron mass, and realized that this could only be constant if a given amount of mass carried a given amount of charge. This suggested charge and mass were carried together in discrete units he called corpuscles. When later the Millikan oil drop experiment measure quantized electric charge, the discrete electron was definitively identified. 103 years later the Higgs boson was announced.