Q. Who coined the term electron?
Solution:
- He was the Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney who was the first to suggest that there was a ‘single definite quantity of electricity’, the charge of a monovalent ion.
- It was he who coined the term ‘electron’.
- He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the “fundamental unit quantity of electricity”.
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