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George Johnstone Stoney

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Anglo-Irish physicist

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George Johnstone Stoney
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According to Wikipedia, George Johnstone Stoney FRS 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. He published around 75 scientific papers during his lifetime.

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George Johnstone Stoney's Published Works

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