Happy Birthday, Electron

Happy Birthday, Electron

The Higgs gets the headlines, but the electron is really physicists' favorite particle. The electron theory, developed 120 years ago, is an underappreciated bridge from classical to modern physics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilczek, Frank (Contributor)
Other Authors:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Scientific American, a Division of Nature America/Nature Publishing Group, 2013-04-10T18:52:49Z.
Subjects:	Article
Online Access:	Get fulltext


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