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J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Two 15-foot (4.6-metre) spherical terminals of the Van de Graaff direct current electrostatic generator, New Bedford, Mass., 1935.
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
American physicist and inventor
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