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...

to explain the chemical properties of atoms. Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney named this charge "electron" in 1891, and J. J. Thomson and his team...

In physics, the Stoney units form a system of units named after the Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney, who first proposed them in 1881. They are...

George Stoney may refer to: George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911), Irish physicist, introduced the term electron George M. Stoney (1852–1905), American Navy...

scientists preferred the name electron which had been suggested by George Johnstone Stoney in 1891, prior to Thomson's actual discovery. In April 1897, Thomson...

the foundation of the Irish Hurling Union. 1881: Stoney units discovered by George Johnstone Stoney. 1885: Cream cracker created by Joseph Haughton. 1886:...

William FitzGerald and his wife Anne Frances Stoney (sister of George Johnstone Stoney and Bindon Blood Stoney). Professor of Moral Philosophy in Trinity...

for Planetary System Nomenclature after Anglo-Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911). It lies to the southeast of the crater Baldet and to the...

of the falling stars" (1867). In the 1890s, Irish astronomer George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911) and British astronomer Arthur Matthew Weld Downing (1850–1917)...

charge as a unit was promoted by George Johnstone Stoney in 1874 for the first system of natural units, called Stoney units. Later, he proposed the name electron...

Riverside, Iran: Shamloo Publications Center. ISBN 978-600-116-684-6. Stoney, G. Johnstone (1881). "LII. On the physical units of nature". The London, Edinburgh...

George Johnstone Stoney, noting that electric charge is quantized, derived units of length, time, and mass, now named Stoney units in his honor. Stoney chose...

but was later named electron, after particles postulated by George Johnstone Stoney in 1874. He also showed they were identical with particles given off...

Canadian Supreme Court George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911), Irish physicist; introduced the term "electron" Paul Johnstone, alter-ego of the anti-hero Shadowhawk...

Boerhaave, Leiden, 1983, p. 7. "Heliostat, contrived by the late G. Johnstone Stoney, D.Sc., F.R.S., c. 1875". Science Museum Group. Retrieved 20 June 2022...

pp. 43–45. ISBN 978-0691095523. O'Hara, J. G. (March 1975). "George Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., and the Concept of the Electron". Notes and Records of the...

instead be called electrons following an 1894 suggestion by George Johnstone Stoney for naming the basic unit of electrical charge. In 1904, Thomson published...

July 5 Maria Pia of Savoy, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1847) George Johnstone Stoney, Irish physicist (b. 1826) July 6 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg...

Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Sir George Stokes, John Tyndall, George Johnstone Stoney, Thomas Romney Robinson, Edward Sabine, Thomas Andrews, Lord Rosse...

ke is the Coulomb constant, and e is the elementary charge. George Johnstone Stoney's unit system preceded that of Planck by 30 years. He presented the...

and Matter, a book on theoretical physics published in 1900. George Johnstone Stoney introduced the term electron in 1891. John Stewart Bell was the originator...

turbine. George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911) Physicist. Born, Oakley Park, Clareen. He introduced the term electron in 1891. Bindon Blood Stoney (1828–1909)...

constellation of Ursa Major from the Solar System. It was discovered by George Johnstone Stoney, an Irish astronomer, on February 9th, 1850. NGC 2603 has an estimated...

Robinson Stoney, later renamed Andrew Robinson Stoney-Bowes (1747–1810), was an Anglo-Irish member of parliament, high sheriff, and criminal. Stoney grew...

motions of astronomical bodies. In one paper, he worked with George Johnstone Stoney on the perturbations of the Leonid meteors, predicting and explaining...

medical physicist. Edith Stoney was born at 40 Wellington Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin; the daughter of George Johnstone Stoney, FRS, an eminent physicist...

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larger compared to the Milky Way. NGC 5683 was discovered by George Johnstone Stoney on April 13, 1850. NGC 5683 happens to lie near to a spiral galaxy...

policy. Niamh Reilly - sociologist and political scientist George Johnstone Stoney - physicist University of Galway is the setting for, and is referred...

electron as a unit of charge in electrochemistry was posited by G. Johnstone Stoney in 1874, who also coined the term electron in 1894. Plasma was first...