Biography:George Johnstone Stoney

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George Johnstone Stoney (1826-1911) was an Irish physicist who introduced the name electron for the elementary unit of electric charge.

In the Quantum Collection, Stoney is linked with the naming history of the electron.

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Author: Harold Foppele