Scientists worked with electricity long before they understood that current ... everything from computers to phones to microwaves, the electron turned out to be interesting to just about everybody.

229) contains a survey, written in general terms, of the development of our knowledge of the electron since its discovery at the end of last century. The discovery of the electron, and the ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was ... would soon discover the electron), and Thomson encouraged him to study recently-discovered x-rays.

For the first time, scientists have figured out what an electron actually looks like while moving through a solid—a major ...

The breakthrough discovery reported in this study ... of the topological electronic crystal never before seen in the rare cases where electron crystals have been observed in the past: edges ...