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George Johnstone Stoney

1826 - 1911

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George Johnstone Stoney (15 February 1826 – 5 July 1911) was an Irish physicist known for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity". He initially named it electrolion in 1881, and later named it electron in 1891. He published around 75 scientific papers during his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Johnstone Stoney is the 386th most popular physicist (up from 390th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 82nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 386 out of 851. Before him are Federico Faggin, Friedrich Paschen, August Kundt, Abram Ioffe, Vladimir Fock, and Edward Witten. After him are Qian Xuesen, Donna Strickland, Christopher Polhem, Manfred von Ardenne, Léon Brillouin, and Hiroshi Amano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 21. Before him are Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Zénobe Gramme, Spotted Elk, Adolf Bastian, Karl von Piloty, and William Waddington. After him are Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, Henri Mouhot, Karl Gegenbaur, Julia Grant, Giovanni Battista Donati, and George B. McClellan. Among people deceased in 1911, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 30. Before him are Theodor Escherich, Ahmed ‘Urabi, Alexandre Guilmant, Jules Brunet, Jozef Israëls, and Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah. After him are Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko, Frances Harper, Heinrich Hofmann, Maurice Rouvier, Jack Daniel, and James Curtis Hepburn.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 87 out of 549. Before him are Mary Jane Kelly (1863), Thomas Moore (1779), Saint Fiacre (607), Seán Brady (1939), Patrick Ryan (1881), and Caitriona Balfe (1979). After him are Brian Boru (941), Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810), Edward Mulhare (1923), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Dymphna (700), and Edward Carson (1854).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ireland

Among physicists born in Ireland, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 5. Before him are William Rowan Hamilton (1805), George Francis FitzGerald (1851), Ernest Walton (1903), and John Tyndall (1820). After him are John Sealy Townsend (1868), and John Joly (1857).

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