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...
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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...
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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...
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George Stoney may refer to: George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911), Irish physicist, introduced the term electron George M. Stoney (1852–1905), American Navy...
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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...
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the foundation of the Irish Hurling Union. 1881: Stoney units discovered by George Johnstone Stoney. 1885: Cream cracker created by Joseph Haughton. 1886:...
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William FitzGerald and his wife Anne Frances Stoney (sister of George Johnstone Stoney and Bindon Blood Stoney). Professor of Moral Philosophy in Trinity...
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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...
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of the falling stars" (1867). In the 1890s, Irish astronomer George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911) and British astronomer Arthur Matthew Weld Downing (1850–1917)...
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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...
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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...
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Planck units (redirect from Planck-Stoney units)
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...
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but was later named electron, after particles postulated by George Johnstone Stoney in 1874. He also showed they were identical with particles given off...
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Canadian Supreme Court George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911), Irish physicist; introduced the term "electron" Paul Johnstone, alter-ego of the anti-hero Shadowhawk...
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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...
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instead be called electrons following an 1894 suggestion by George Johnstone Stoney for naming the basic unit of electrical charge. In 1904, Thomson published...
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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...
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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...
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Natural units (section Stoney units)
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...
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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...
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Robinson Stoney, later renamed Andrew Robinson Stoney-Bowes (1747–1810), was an Anglo-Irish member of parliament, high sheriff, and criminal. Stoney grew...
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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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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...
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Sir George Stokes, John Tyndall, George Johnstone Stoney, Thomas Romney Robinson, Edward Sabine, Thomas Andrews, Lord Rosse...
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motions of astronomical bodies. In one paper, he worked with George Johnstone Stoney on the perturbations of the Leonid meteors, predicting and explaining...
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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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Whitley Stokes (physician) Whitley Stokes (Celtic scholar) George Johnstone Stoney Jonathan Swift James Joseph Sylvester Edward Hutchinson Synge John...
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policy. Niamh Reilly - sociologist and political scientist George Johnstone Stoney - physicist University of Galway is the setting for, and is referred...
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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...
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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 tube"...
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