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George Francis FitzGerald

1851 - 1901

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Prof George Francis FitzGerald 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Francis FitzGerald has received more than 89,149 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). George Francis FitzGerald is the 335th most popular physicist (up from 343rd in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 71st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Irish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George Francis FitzGerald ranks 335 out of 717Before him are Pascual Jordan, August Kundt, Félix Savart, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Leopold Infeld, and Vladimir Shukhov. After him are Moritz von Jacobi, Manfred von Ardenne, Karl Guthe Jansky, Shuji Nakamura, Walter A. Shewhart, and Ami Argand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, George Francis FitzGerald ranks 24Before him are Vincent d'Indy, Isabella, Princess of Asturias, Torakusu Yamaha, Asa Griggs Candler, Alexander, Prince of Orange, and Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Bernardino Machado, Doc Holliday, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Charles Dow, Franz von Liszt, and Guillaume Bigourdan. Among people deceased in 1901, George Francis FitzGerald ranks 23Before him are Gaetano Bresci, Elisha Gray, Paul Rée, Josef Rheinberger, Francesco Crispi, and Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Adolf Eugen Fick, Iosif Gurko, Princess Januária of Brazil, Lev Ivanov, and Shō Tai.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, George Francis FitzGerald ranks 62 out of 501Before him are David Kelly (1929), Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850), Colin Farrell (1976), Christy Brown (1932), Malcolm II of Scotland (954), and James Ussher (1581). After him are William C. Campbell (1930), Brigid of Kildare (451), Brian Cowen (1960), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), Brian Boru (941), and Sinéad O'Connor (1966).

Among PHYSICISTS In Ireland

Among physicists born in Ireland, George Francis FitzGerald ranks 4Before him are William Rowan Hamilton (1805), John Tyndall (1820), and Ernest Walton (1903). After him are George Johnstone Stoney (1826), John Sealy Townsend (1868), and John Joly (1857).