Since electricity is the lifeblood of everything from computers to phones to microwaves, the electron turned out to be interesting to just about everybody.

At the end of the 19th century, while studying the effects of passing an electrical current through gases at low pressure, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays—highly ...

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 ...