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Who supervised Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory?
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When Ernest Rutherford arrived at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1895, he worked under the supervision of J.J. Thomson.12
Thomson, who had taken over the laboratory in 1884, was a renowned physicist and an influential mentor who gathered a global group of researchers around him. Rutherford conducted significant research under Thomson's guidance, including the work that led to the modern understanding of the internal structure of the atom.12