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Mentor and Constant Friend: the Life of George Francis Fitzgerald (1851–1901)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2007
Abstract
George Francis Fitzgerald is known to most students of physics for his proposal of the Fitzgerald (-Lorentz) Contraction, but this is a minor episode in a remarkable life. Many of his ideas found expression through others. His powerful influence on the physics of his time has been reconstructed from his correspondence, as leader of the Maxwellians.
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