Edith Anne Stoney
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Edith Anne Stoney was an Irish physicist. Born in Dublin in an old-established Anglo-Irish scientific family, she is considered to be the first woman medical physicist.
Edith Anne Stoney c. early 1890s
Edith Stoney's medals held at Newnham College, Cambridge. From left to right: British War Medal (reverse), Victory Medal (obverse), Serbian Order of St Sava (reverse), French Croix de Guerre (reverse) and French “Médaille des épidémies" (reverse).
From left to right: Edith Stoney (left), with her sister Florence and father Johnstone
George Johnstone Stoney
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George Johnstone Stoney was an Irish physicist and academic who is best known for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity"; he initially named it electrolion in
Edith Anne Stoney
…family, she is considered to be the first woman medical physicist. Edith Stoney was born at 40 Wellington Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin; the daughter of George Johnstone Stoney, FRS, an eminent physicist who coined the term electron in 1891 as the 'fundamental unit quantity of electricity', and his wife and cousin, Margaret…
George Johnstone Stoney,Undated