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5 unusual facts about George Johnstone Stoney


Elementary charge

The use of elementary charge as a unit was promoted by George Johnstone Stoney in 1874 for the first system of natural units, called Stoney units.

George Johnstone Stoney

Previous to this mandate, Hermann Weyl made a notable attempt to construct a unified theory by associating a gravitational unit of charge with the Stoney length.

George Stoney

George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911), Irish physicist, introduced the term electron

Meteor shower

In the 1890s, Irish astronomer George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911) and British astronomer Arthur Matthew Weld Downing (1850–1917), were the first to attempt to calculate the position of the dust at Earth's orbit.

Natural units

George Johnstone Stoney was the first physicist to introduce the concept of natural units.



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