biography
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Stoney, George Johnstone
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1826–1911)
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| biography:
| Irish physicist. He became professor of natural philosophy at Queen's College, Galway (1852), and secretary of Queen's University, Dublin (1857). He calculated an approximate value for the charge of an electron (1874), a term he himself introduced. |
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