Fitzgerald [FitzGerald], George Francis (1851-1901)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3620. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Irish physicist, born in Kill-o'-the Grange, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, became professor at Trinity College Dublin, identified the reason for the result of the Michelson-Morley experiment, as the shrinkage of a body due to motion at speeds close to that of light. LORENTZ independently came to the same conclusion, and the effect is called the FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction of relativity....

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