{"id":8862,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/proton\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:19","slug":"proton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/proton\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/1908\/rutherford-bio.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/1908\/rutherford-bio.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ernest Rutherford<\/a> in 1918). it is a positively charged particle to be found in an atomic nucleus. &nbsp;The number of protons in a nucleus gives the atomic number of an element, the latter being found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webelements.com\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.webelements.com\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">periodic table of elements<\/a>. &nbsp;A proton has a charge +1 that is the exact opposite of that contained by an electron, -1, and the mass of a proton is 1,826 times greater than that of electron. &nbsp;In the past, the proton was considered to be the most elementary particle until the discovery of the quark. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"brain_-neuro--_imaging\">Brain (neuro-) imaging<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered by Ernest Rutherford in 1918). it is a positively charged particle to be found in an atomic nucleus. &nbsp;The number of protons in a nucleus gives the atomic number of an element, the latter being found in the periodic table of elements. &nbsp;A proton has a charge +1 that is the exact opposite of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/proton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}