Gj stoney biography of michael
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Gj stoney biography of michael
George Johnstone Stoney
Irish physicist (1826–1911)
George Johnstone Stoney (15 February 1826 – 5 July 1911) was an Irish physicist known for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity".[1]
He initially named it "electrolion" in 1881,[2] and later named it “electron” in 1891.[3][4][5] He published around 75 scientific papers during his lifetime.
Education and employment
Stoney was born at Oakley Park, near Birr, County Offaly, in the Irish Midlands, the son of George Stoney (1792–) and Anne Blood (1801–1883). The Stoney family is an old-established Anglo-Irish family.[6] He attended Trinity College Dublin, graduating with a B.A.
degree in 1848. From 1848 to 1852 he worked as an astronomy assistant to William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse at Birr Castle, County Offaly, where Parsons had built the world's largest telescope, the 72-inch Leviathan of Parsonstown.
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