1826 - 1911
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".He had introduced the concept, though not the word, as early as 1874, initially naming it "electrine", and the word itself came in 1891. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Johnstone Stoney has received more than 164,267 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). George Johnstone Stoney is the 349th most popular physicist (down from 339th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Ireland (down from 69th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Physicist.
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Among physicists, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 349 out of 717. Before him are Heinrich Geißler, Donna Strickland, Edward Witten, Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Jean-Antoine Nollet, and Henri Pitot. After him are Léon Brillouin, Galileo Ferraris, Hans Kramers, William Sturgeon, Luis Walter Alvarez, and Georg Wilhelm Richmann.
1814 - 1879
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 343
1959 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 344
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 345
1891 - 1951
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 346
1700 - 1770
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 347
1695 - 1771
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 348
1826 - 1911
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 349
1889 - 1969
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 350
1847 - 1897
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 351
1894 - 1952
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 352
1783 - 1850
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 353
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 354
1711 - 1753
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 355
Among people born in 1826, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 18. Before him are Frederic Edwin Church, Alexander Afanasyev, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Adolf Bastian. After him are Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, Karl von Piloty, Stephen Foster, George B. McClellan, Walter Bagehot, and Cetshwayo kaMpande. Among people deceased in 1911, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 27. Before him are Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Johan Svendsen, Jack Daniel, Jules Brunet, Williamina Fleming, and Sam Loyd. After him are Jozef Israëls, Sister Nivedita, Alexandre Guilmant, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Christian Bohr, and John Hughlings Jackson.
1826 - 1900
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 12
1826 - 1871
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 13
1826 - 1860
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 14
1826 - 1914
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 15
1826 - 1889
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 16
1826 - 1905
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 17
1826 - 1911
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 18
1826 - 1845
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 19
1826 - 1886
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 20
1826 - 1864
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 21
1826 - 1885
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 22
1826 - 1877
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 23
1826 - 1884
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 24
1836 - 1911
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 21
1840 - 1911
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 22
1850 - 1911
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 23
1838 - 1911
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 24
1857 - 1911
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 25
1841 - 1911
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 26
1826 - 1911
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 27
1824 - 1911
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 28
1867 - 1911
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 29
1837 - 1911
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 30
1817 - 1911
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 31
1855 - 1911
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 32
1835 - 1911
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 33
Among people born in Ireland, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 71 out of 501. Before him are Brian Cowen (1960), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Brian Boru (941), Sinéad O'Connor (1966), Mary Robinson (1944), and Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810). After him are Conor McGregor (1988), Kevin Farrell (1947), J. D. Bernal (1901), Vergilius of Salzburg (700), Charles Maturin (1780), and Oliver Goldsmith (1728).
1960 - Present
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 65
1814 - 1873
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 66
941 - 1014
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 67
1966 - 2023
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 68
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 69
1810 - 1897
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 70
1826 - 1911
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 71
1988 - Present
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 72
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 73
1901 - 1971
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 74
700 - 784
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 75
1780 - 1824
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 76
1728 - 1774
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 77
Among physicists born in Ireland, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 5. Before him are William Rowan Hamilton (1805), John Tyndall (1820), Ernest Walton (1903), and George Francis FitzGerald (1851). After him are John Sealy Townsend (1868) and John Joly (1857).
1805 - 1865
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 1
1820 - 1893
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 2
1903 - 1995
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 3
1851 - 1901
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 4
1826 - 1911
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 5
1868 - 1957
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 6
1857 - 1933
HPI: 41.09
Rank: 7