1897 - Early Mass Spectrometry

Mass Spectrometry was started by J.J. Thomson.

"At first there were very few who believed in the existence of these bodies smaller than atoms. I was even told long afterwards by a distinguished physicist who had been present at my [1897] lecture at the Royal Institution that he thought I had been 'pulling their legs."

• Thomson J.J.
  Cathode Rays
  Phil. Mag., 1897, 44(), p.293

  
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• Thomson J.J.
  On Rays of Positive Electricity
  Phil. Mag. Series 6, 1907, 13(77), p.561

  
  
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• Thomson J.J.
  Rays of Positive Electricity
  Phil. Mag. Series 6, 1910, 20(118), p.752

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• Thompson J.J.
  Rays of Positive Electricity and their Application to Chemical Analysis
  Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., London, 1913, (), p.

  
  
  

• Dempster A.J.
  A new method of positive ray analysis
  Phys. Rev., 1917, XI(4), p.316

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• Aston F.W.
  A Positive Ray Spectrograph
  Phys. Review, 1918, XI(), p.316

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• Aston F.W.
  The Mass-Spectra of Chemical Elements
  Phil. Mag., 1919, XXXXVIII(), p.707

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• Aston F.W.
  Isotopes and Atomic Weights
  Nature, 1920, 105(), p.617

  
  
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• Arnot F.L., Milligan J.C.
  Formation of Negative Atomic Ions of Mercury
  Nature, 1935, 135(), p.150

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