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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Hurling Union. 1881: Stoney units discovered by George Johnstone Stoney. 1883: Method of producing electromagnetic waves discovered by George Francis FitzGerald...

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...

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

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

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

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...

in 1874, when George Johnstone Stoney, noting that electric charge is quantized, derived units of length, time, and mass, now named Stoney units in his...

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

Comparative anatomist, Professor at Queen's College Galway 1849-1882 George Johnstone Stoney - physicist who introduced the term electron as the "fundamental...

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

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

Sir George Stokes, John Tyndall, George Johnstone Stoney, Thomas Romney Robinson, Edward Sabine, Thomas Andrews, Lord Rosse, George Salmon, and George FitzGerald...

geologist and anthropologist William Stokes, physician and professor George Johnstone Stoney, physicist who proposed the term 'electron' for the fundamental...

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...

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

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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...

particles", which had already been named electrons by Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney in 1891. The earliest version of the CRT was known as the "Braun...

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...

Borrisokane, County Tipperary in Ireland, son of George Stoney and Elizabeth Johnston. His grandfather, Thomas Stoney, had migrated to Ireland from Yorkshire,...

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

via the Red Cow interchange. The 19th-century Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney, the first person to posit the existence of the electron, resided...