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George Johnstone Stoney

1826 - 1911

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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

Among physicists, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 349 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 18Before 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 27Before 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.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 71 out of 501Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In Ireland

Among physicists born in Ireland, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 5Before 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).