The 17 elementary particles of the Standard Model
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Electron (1897) · Photon · Muon (1936). (Updated Mar 26, 2024.)
Six quarks, six leptons, four force-carrying bosons and the Higgs boson, discovered at CERN in 2012: the fundamental building blocks of everything that exists, from the 1897 electron to the Higgs boson. Which is your favourite?
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Top 17
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Electron (1897)
The first to be discovered, by J. J. Thomson.
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Photon
The quantum of light, carrier of the electromagnetic force.
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Muon (1936)
A "heavy electron" found in cosmic rays.
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4
Electron neutrino (1956)
First detected near a nuclear reactor.
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Muon neutrino (1962)
Its discovery won Lederman, Schwartz and Steinberger the Nobel Prize.
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Up quark
With the down quark it makes up protons and neutrons.
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Down quark
Two downs and an up make a neutron.
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Strange quark
It gives its name to "strange" particles.
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Charm quark (1974)
Physics' "November Revolution".
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Tau (1975)
The heaviest charged lepton.
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Bottom quark (1977)
Discovered at Fermilab.
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Gluon (1979)
It holds quarks together: the strong nuclear force.
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W boson (1983)
Carrier of the weak force, discovered at CERN.
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Z boson (1983)
Also discovered at CERN.
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Top quark (1995)
The heaviest elementary particle, found at Fermilab.
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Tau neutrino (2000)
The last fermion to be observed.
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Higgs boson (2012)
Announced at CERN on 4 July 2012: it gives particles their mass.
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