Edith Anne Stoney
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Edith Anne Stoney was a 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 FRS was an Irish physicist. He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity".
George Johnstone Stoney
Stoney pictured with his daughters Edith (left) and Florence.