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2 | After studying electrolysis in 1874, Johnstone Stoney suggested the existence of a “single definite quantity of electricity”. He was able to estimate the value of this elementary charge by means of Faraday’s laws of electrolysis. He introduced the term “electron” in 1894 and it was identified as a particle in 1897 by Thomson. | |
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11 | The CODATA is the COmmittee on Data for Science and Technology, see ![]() |
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http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2011-2 |
Living Rev. Relativity 14, (2011), 2
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