biography
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Fitzgerald, George Francis
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| male
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| lived:
| (1851–1901)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Dublin, Ireland. He was professor of natural philosophy at Dublin (1881–1901). Independently of Lorentz, he concluded that, to a stationary observer, a moving body appears shorter, the degree of forshortening being larger at higher velocities (the Lorentz–Fitzgerald contraction), a notion embraced by Einstein as part of his theory of special relativity. |
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