He also coined, on Faraday's request, the words anode (from Greek anodos = way up) and cathode (way down), where what goes up or down is not current nor electrons nor ions, but... the Sun, unobviously!
Michel /4/16, Harry Veeder <[email protected]>: > Biography of the man who coined the words "scientist" and "physicist": > > http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whewell.html > > Harry > >
