Elementary charge is . Robert A. Millikan's oil drop experiment first measured the magnitude of the elementary charge in 1909. In some natural unit systems, such as the system of atomic units, "e" functions as the unit of electric charge, that is "e" is equal to 1 e in those unit systems. 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. Later, he proposed the name "electron" for this unit. At the time, the particle we now call the electron was not yet discovered and
George (given name) to a variety of regional forms. George (given name) George is a widespread masculine given name, derived from the Greek () through the Latin . Its popularity is due to the widespread veneration of the Christian military saint Saint George (George of Lydda, d. 303). The Greek name as given in the Roman era may ultimately derive from the name of Zeus Georgos, an epithet of Zeus in his aspect as the god of crops. Even though the saint has been considered a patron saint of England since the 15th or 16th century, the given name was rarely given in