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George Francis FitzGerald FRS FRSE FTCD (3 August 1851 – 21 February 1901) was an Irish academic and physicist who served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) from 1881 to 1901.
George Francis FitzGerald was a physicist who first suggested a method of producing radio waves, thus helping to lay the basis of wireless telegraphy. He also developed a theory, now known as the Lorentz–-FitzGerald contraction, which Einstein used in his own special theory of relativity.
George FitzGerald was a brilliant mathematical physicist who today is known by most scientists as one of the proposers of the FitzGerald- Lorentz contraction in the theory of relativity.
In 1898 he was the Commissioner of National Education in Ireland with hopes of reforming education by introducing more practical topics for primary education. Fitzgerald also wished for the ’modernisation’ of Trinity College and supported women in higher education.
May 29, 2018 · Fitzgerald, George Francis (1851–1901) Irish physicist who researched electrolysis and electromagnetism and who is noted for his theory of electromagnetic radiation. As an explanation of the Michelson-Morley experiment to determine the Earth 's movement through the ether , Fitzgerald suggested the theory that objects change length (the ...
George FitzGerald was an eminent physicist noted for developing James Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of radiation and for his explanation of the null result of the Michelson–Morley experiment.
George Francis Fitzgerald was born in Dublin in 1851. He graduated from the University of Dublin in mathematics and experimental science in 1871. Ten years later he became Erasmus Smith Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin.
