Fitzgerald, George Francis (1851–1901)
Irish physicist who researched electrolysis and electromagnetism who is noted for his theory of electromagnetic radiation. As an explanation of the Michelson-Morley experiment to determine the Earth's motion through the ether, Fitzgerald suggested the theory that objects change length (Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction) along the direction in which they are moving. This was important to Albert Einstein when he devised his special theory.
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