ITHACA, NEW YORK – An apocryphal story sometimes heard among physicists concerns a toast, proposed by his Cambridge University colleagues, to J. J. Thomson’s discovery of the electron in 1897: “To the electron: may it never be of use to anyone!”
纽约伊萨卡——在自然科学家中间有时会听到一则杜撰的故事，讲的是剑桥大学同事在举杯祝贺1897年J.