ELECTRICAL NATURE OF MATTER

He formulated a law which states that bodies bearing the same charge repel one another , while bodies of opposite charge attract one another.

• Charles Coulomb

• Eugene Goldstein

• Joseph John Thomson

• Sir Humphry Davy

He pioneered the study and use of electricity.

• Julius Plucker

• George Stoney

• Luigi Galvani

• Count Alessandro Volta

He invented the wet battery.

• Charles Coulomb

• Michael Faraday

• Count Alessandro Volta

• William Crookes

He investigated the nature and effects of what he conceived to be electricity in animal tissue.

• Sir Humphry Davy

• Luigi Galvani

• Count Alessandro Volta

• Ernest Rutherford

He created the first incandescent light and reasoned that electrolysis, the interactions of electric currents with chemical compounds, offered the most likely means of decomposing all substances to their elements.

• Sir Humphry Davy

• Michael Faraday

• George Stoney

• Henry Cavendish

He suggested the existence of a fundamental unit of electricity to account his results involving electrolysis of solutions of aqueous acids and salts.

• Alessandro Volta

• Luigi Galvani

• Charles Coulomb

• Michael Faraday

He proposed the name "electrine" for the unit of charge.

• George Stoney

• Humphry Davy

• Charles Coulomb

• Henry Cavendish

It is the standard unit of potential difference and electromotive force ;named after Alessandro Volta

• VAL

• coulomb

• volt

• AV

The quantitative laws used to express magnitudes of electrolytic effects

• Law of Multiple Proportions

• Law of Conservation of Mass

• Coulomb's Law

• Faraday's Laws

symbol for coulomb

• C

• Co

• Col

• Cb