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The discovery by Monsieur and Madame Curie that a sample of radium gives out sufficient energy to melt half its weight of ice per hour has attracted attention to the question of the source from which the radium derives the energy necessary to maintain the radiation; this problem has been before us ever since the original discovery by Becquerel of the radiation from uranium.

— J. J. Thomson

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I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter.

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