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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Trial of
- A Practical Guide to Preaching
- Somebody Up There Likes Me Too
- Promise of Hope ~ Devotions for Prisoners
- Applications of Molecular Modeling to Challenges in Clean Energy
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1917-04-25
- Active to
- 1996-06-15
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 331,523
- Total plays
- 3,763,544
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George Fitzgerald first appeared on our radar with his "Don't You" cut on Scuba's Sub:stance mix. Fast-forward a year and he's got his first release on Hotflush, dropping the future garage soul of "The Let Down" and a luscious dubtech gem in "Weakness". It's hard to escape the fact that both sides strongly remind of Joy Orbison, but that's a really obvious comparison to make considering that he's got tunes lined up for release on Doldrums. The pair <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/George+Fitzg
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
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· 1997 · cited 48,640x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,912x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,474x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,669x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1851-08-03 ) 3 August 1851, Dublin , Ireland , UKGBI
- Died
- 21 February 1901 (1901-02-21) (aged 49), Dublin, Ireland, UKGBI
- Resting place
- Mount Jerome Cemetery , Dublin
- Alma mater
- Trinity College Dublin
- Known for
- Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction
- Spouse
- Harriette Jellett ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1885 )
- Father
- William FitzGerald
- Relatives
- John Hewitt Jellett (father-in-law) George Johnstone Stoney (uncle) Bindon Blood Stoney (uncle)
- Awards
- MRIA (1878) FRS (1883) Royal Medal (1899) HonFRSE (1900)
- Title
- Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1881–1901)
- Fields
- Electromagnetism
- Institutions
- Trinity College Dublin , (1877–1901)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of death
- Dublin
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Employer
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Royal Medal
- Notable work
- length contraction
- Academic degree
- professor
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- PSM V63 D476 George Francis FitzGerald.png
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- member of
- Royal Society of Edinburgh
- date of birth
- 1851-08-03
- date of death
- 1901-02-21
- Commons gallery
- George Francis FitzGerald
- place of burial
- Mount Jerome Cemetery
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- George Francis FitzGerald
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- George Francis Fitzgerald
- relative
- John Hewitt Jellett
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Encyclopedic overview
George Francis FitzGerald (3 August 1851 – 21 February 1901) was an Irish theoretical physicist known for hypothesising length contraction, which became an integral part of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “George FitzGerald” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.