George Francis FitzGerald
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Irish physicist
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George Francis FitzGerald's Degrees
- PhD Physics National University of Ireland
- Bachelors Physics National University of Ireland
Why Is George Francis FitzGerald Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Prof George Francis FitzGerald FTCD was an Irish academic and physicist who served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin from 1881 to 1901. FitzGerald is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. A crater on the far side of the Moon is named after him, as is a building at TCD.
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