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Photon

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a fundamental particle representing a quantum of light
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Stage 1 of 2
phos
Greek · ancient
"light"
light, combined with the particle suffix -on
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Stage 2 of 2
photon
English · 1926
"a fundamental particle of light"
coined by physicist Gilbert Lewis for the fundamental particle of light
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