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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Johnstone Stoney has received more than 178,429 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). George Johnstone Stoney is the 390th most popular physicist (down from 349th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 70th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 390 out of 851. Before him are Oskar Klein, Christopher Polhem, Sameera Moussa, Robert Brout, Louis Poinsot, and Wolfgang Ketterle. After him are John Henry Poynting, Franz Aepinus, Friedrich Paschen, Léon Brillouin, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, and Edward Witten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 22. Before him are Adolf Bastian, George B. McClellan, Karl von Piloty, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Henri Mouhot. After him are Cetshwayo kaMpande, Walter Bagehot, Stephen Foster, Giuseppe Zanardelli, Gustave Moynier, and William Waddington. Among people deceased in 1911, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 31. Before him are Johan Svendsen, Jules Brunet, Christian Bohr, Williamina Fleming, Joseph Dalton Hooker, and Alexandre Guilmant. After him are Félix Ziem, James Curtis Hepburn, Sam Loyd, Ernst Brenner, Konrad Duden, and Édouard André.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, George Johnstone Stoney ranks 82 out of 549. Before him are Vergilius of Salzburg (700), Brigid of Kildare (451), Neil Jordan (1950), James Hoban (1762), Fionnula Flanagan (1941), and Conor McGregor (1988). After him are Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), Eliza Lynch (1833), Andrew Graham (1815), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), and Saint Kilian (640).

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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), Ernest Walton (1903), John Tyndall (1820), and George Francis FitzGerald (1851). After him are John Sealy Townsend (1868), and John Joly (1857).

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