Science Fact of the Day

"An interesting historical aside in the concept of the wave-particle duality of matter is that the first person to show that the electron was a subatomic particle was the English physicist Sir Joseph J. Thomson in 1895, and then his son, Sir George P. Thomson, was among the first to show experimentally in 1926 that the electron could act as a wave. The father won a Nobel Prize in 1906 for showing that the electron is a particle, and the son won a Nobel Prize in 1937 for showing that it is a wave."

Isn't quantum mechanics fascinating?

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McQuarrie, D. A.; Simon, J. D. Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach; University Science Books: Sausalito, CA, 1997; p 18.