Humphrey Maris

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Humphrey Maris is a physicist and a professor at Brown University.[1] He studies cryogenics. In 1991 he was made the George Chase Professor of Natural Science.[1]

Maris made headlines in the popular media when he proposed in 2000 that electrons could break up into smaller particles, each with fractional charge.[2] He dubbed these hypothetical particles "electrinos."

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  1. ^ a b http://www.physics.brown.edu/people/detail.asp?id=28
  2. ^ Science News, September 30, 2000. Peter Weiss