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The name “electron”, which is derived from the Greek word for amber, was coined by the English physicist Stoney in 1894.
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Haken, H., Wolf, H.C. (1993). The Electron. In: The Physics of Atoms and Quanta. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97468-7_6
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