George Johnstone Stoney

George Johnstone Stoney
Born(1826-02-15)15 February 1826
Oakley Park, Clareen, Birr, County Offaly, Ireland
Died5 July 1911(1911-07-05) (aged 85)
NationalityIrish
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Known forThe Stoney scale, Electron
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsQueen's College Galway, Queen's University of Ireland

George Johnstone Stoney FRS (15 February 1826 – 5 July 1911) was an Irish physicist. He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity".[1]

He had introduced the concept, though not the word, as early as 1874, initially naming it "electrine",[2] and the word itself came in 1891.[3][4][5] He published around 75 scientific papers during his lifetime.

  1. ^ "George Johnstone Stoney 1826–1911". Daily Express. 6 July 1911. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  2. ^ "The man who 'invented' the electron". Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  3. ^ Stoney Uses the Term Electron
  4. ^ Jammer, Max (1956). Concepts of Force – A Study of the Foundations of Dynamics. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-486-40689-X.1999 reprint
  5. ^ Stoney, G. J. (1881). "On the Physical Units of Nature". Phil. Mag. Vol. 5, no. 11. pp. 381–390.

© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search