Natura - nature actualia - actual entities Mundus Plinius - physical world particles elementary particles elementary fermions - elementary particles with half-integer spin leptons 1.1 electron 1897 1.2 electron neutrino C.L. Cowan et al., 1956 2.1 muon 1930's 2.2 muon neutrino 1962 3.1 tau M.L. Perl et al., 1975 3.2 tau neutrino