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By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them…

— Johannes Stark

As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are…

— Joseph John Thomson

“Although we take this for granted, the cancellation of positive and negative charges is quite remarkable, and has been experimentally checked to 1 part…

— Michio Kaku

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it…

— David Sedaris

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes…

— Johannes Stark

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which…

— Johannes Stark

“making contact with the Earth’s electrical field—has a favorable effect on health. The Earth is negatively charged while the air is full of positive…

— Wim Hof

Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive…

— Johannes Stark

“Charged particles can scatter light by absorbing and reemitting it (a). Light can scatter off light only by the mediation of charged particles-the virtual…

— Henning Genz

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal…

— Johannes Stark

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various…

— Eric Allin Cornell

Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally…

— Robert Andrews Millikan