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Here in 1897 at the old Cavendish Laboratory J. J. Thomson discovered the electron subsequently recognised as the first fundamental particle of physics and the basis of chemical bonding electronics and computing
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Free School Lane, Cambridge, UK

This plaque commemorates the place where J J Thomson discovered the electron.