InformaTION:

Joseph John Thomson

English Physicist, 1897

ATomic StruCTURE: THeory

The second theory was the plum pudding model in 1904 by J.J. ​Thompson, this was the first scientific model of an atom with internal ​structure. In this theory Thompson states that the electrons were ​embedded in a uniform sphere of positive charge, this was called ​plum pudding because this dessert is similar to a blueberry muffin ​wherein blueberries are stuck into the muffin just like how the ​electrons are embedded in a sphere of positive charge.