George Johnstone Stoney
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 113 years ago |
| Date of birth | February 15,1826 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Birr |
| County Offaly | |
| Ireland | |
| Date of died | July 5,1911 |
| Died | Notting Hill |
| London | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Children | George Stoney |
| Nationality | British |
| Irish | |
| Residence | Ireland |
| England | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Job | Physicist |
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| ID | 642788 |
George Johnstone Stoney Life story
George Johnstone Stoney FRS was an Irish physicist. He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity". He had introduced the concept, though not the word, as early as 1874, initially naming it "electrine", and the word itself came in 1891.
