Number 191 (Story #4), August 23, 1994 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein "THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDWARD LEPTON," by Carl Norman, is one of the winning entries in the 1994 Science in Print award, sponsored jointly by Britain's National Physical Laboratory and by the Institute of Physics in London. Norman, who works at Imperial College, London, tells the fanciful story of a single electron on its journey through the world. Starting out as a yeoman outer electron in a silicon atom, Eddie (as the electron is known) is liberated by the appearance of an impurity phosphorus atom next door. Thereafter drawn on by electric potential, Eddie does journeyman work through one circuit after another. He gets the ride of his life when he is shot at high speed by the gun of a scanning electron microscope into a specimen, where he frees thousands of brother electrons from surface atoms. His energy spent, Edward lives out his days in semi-retirement attached once again, as most terrestrial electrons must be, to an atom. (Physics World, July 1994.)