George Johnstone Stoney
Anglo-Irish physicist
Died when: 85 years 140 days (1024 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
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George Johnstone Stoney FRS (15 February 1826 – 5 July 1911) 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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