Human Accomplishment: George Johnstone Stoney

an Irish physicist. He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity".

Born

15 February 1826 Oakley Park, Birr, County Offaly, Ireland

Died

5 July 1911 (aged 85) Notting Hill, London, England

Nationality

Irish

Known for

The Stoney scale, Electron

Fields

Physics

Alma mater

Trinity College, Dublin

Institutions

Queen's College Galway, Queen's University of Ireland

adultbasic

Britain

era

1800+

Influenced

J. J. Thomson

George Johnstone Stoney