what was his profession?
He was professor of physics at Queen's College Galway.
George Johnstone Stoney
From 1852 to 1857, Stoney was professor of physics at Queen's College Galway. From 1857 to 1882, he was employed as Secretary of the Queen's University of Ireland, an administrative job based in D
what is an electron? The electron is a subatomic particle. where can they be applied? In electronics, welding, cathode ray tubes, electron microscopes. any scientists who were involved in the research of it? Richard Laming. did he name it? No, but George Johnstone. what are his other research works? He made significant contributions to cosmic physics and to the theory of gases and estimated the number of molecules in a cubic millimetre of gas.
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George Johnstone Stoney [SEP] Education and employment
From 1857 to 1882, he was employed as Secretary of the Queen's University of Ireland, an administrative job based in Dublin. In the early 1880s, he moved to the post of superintendent of Civil Service Examinations in Ireland, a post he held until his retirement in 1893. In that year, he took up residence in London, England. Stoney died in 1911 at his home in Notting Hill, London. During his decades of non-scientific employment responsibilities in Dublin, Stoney continued to do scientific research on his own. He also served for decades as honorary secretary and then vice-president of the Royal Dublin Society, a scientific society modelled after the Royal Society of London, and after his move to London Stoney served on the council of that society too.