The Electron Capture Detector and The Study of Reactions With Thermal Electrons
Chapter One
Scope and History of the Electron
1.1 GENERAL OBJECTIVES AND ORGANIZATION
The electron theory holds that the various atoms of matter have the power, in different
degrees, of gaining or losing electrons; and it assumes that electrons form a natural
part of all atoms, revolving around them or in them at enormous velocities.
-Robert Sanderson Mulliken,
Newburyport High School, Salutatorian
Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1913
The electron is a universal quantity, as noted in the high-school address of
renowned chemist Mulliken. It is a particle, a wave, and an integral part of
all matter. We now know that the natural phenomenon observed with marvel by
ancient man, fire, sunlight, lightning, and the modern things we take for granted,
such as electricity, radio, television, and nuclear power, all involve electrons.
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