History World · October 19, 2026

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Joseph John Thomson. Born in 1856, this physicist discovered the electron. He proposed the plum pudding model. Which present-day country is this person's birthplace in?

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United Kingdom

💡 Joseph John Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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