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– introduction of the term electron by G.J. Stoney, the Anglo-Irish physicist as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity“, he predicted that they..

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Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney named this charge "electron" in , and J. J. Thomson and his team of British physicists identified it as a particle.

– introduction of the term electron by G.J. Stoney, the Anglo-Irish physicist as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity“, he predicted that they.

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Stoney, George Johnstone

(b. Oakley Park, Kingstown [now Dún Laoghaire], County Dublin, Ireland, 15 February 1826; d. London, England, 5 July 1911)

mathematical physics.

Stoney was the eldest son of George Stoney and his wife, Anne, who were Protestant landowners.

The family was a talented one: Stoney’s younger brother, Bindon Blood Stoney (1828–1909); his son, George Gerald Stoney (1863–1942); and his nephew, George Francis Fitzgerald (1851–1901), made significant contributions to science and technology, and were fellows of the Royal Society.

Stoney graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1848 and became assistant to Lord Rosse in his observatory at Parsonstown (now Birr).

After failing to obtain a fellowship at Trinity College, he obtained the chair of natural philosophy at Queen’s College, Galway, which he held for five years. In 1857 he returned to Dublin as secretary to Queen’s University, in which post he spent the rest of his working life.

Stoney was a member of