The electron is 100 years old this year. Of all the elementary particles, it is by far the most familiar, useful and venerable. But is it elementary? And what other particles are elementary?
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Weinberg, S. The first elementary particle. Nature 386, 213–215 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/386213a0
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