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ABenjamin Franklin
BBenjamin Fahrenheit
CBenjamin Faulkner
DBenjamin Fitzgerald
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Benjamin Franklin
1. The naming was a convention, not a discovery.
2. It was made by an American scientist.
3. The charges were named positive and negative by the American scientist Benjamin Franklin.
4. So the answer is Benjamin Franklin.
_Source: syllabus Physics, Ch 1 'Electric Charges and Fields'_
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