George Johnstone Stoney
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George Johnstone Stoney was an Irish physicist and academic who is best known for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity"; he initially named it electrolion in
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Edith, Florence and George Stoney, c. 1910
Electron
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The electron is a subatomic particle whose electric charge is negative one elementary charge. It is an elementary particle contained in the matter that makes up the universe.
George Johnstone Stoney
…George Johnstone Stoney (15 February 1826 – 5 July 1911) was an Irish physicist and academic who is best known for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity"; he initially named it electrolion in 1881, and later named it electron in 1891. He published around…
A beam of electrons deflected by a magnetic field into a circle
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Robert Millikan
A lightning discharge consists primarily of a flow of electrons. The electric potential needed for lightning can be generated by a triboelectric effect.