Skip to content
George FitzGerald

File:George_Francis_FitzGerald.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ536469· pop 46· linked from 244 articles

George FitzGerald

Sign in to save

Also known as George F. FitzGerald

Irish physicist (1851–1901)

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

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1917-04-25
Active to
1996-06-15
2008 universal fire victimaln-shbig bandbluesjazzlive

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
331,523
Total plays
3,763,544

Tags

dubstepfuture garagetechnodub technoHouse

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

via Last.fm · George Fitzgerald

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A short history of<i>SHELX</i>

    · 2007 · cited 79,952x

  2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

    · 1997 · cited 48,640x

  3. Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>

    · 2015 · cited 40,912x

  4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,474x

  5. <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination

    · 2015 · cited 27,669x

via Crossref · CC0

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)

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
George
Gender
male
Place of death
Dublin
Languages spoken
English language
Notable work
length contraction
Academic degree
professor
Field of work
physics
Image
PSM V63 D476 George Francis FitzGerald.png
Show 11 more facts
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
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
name in native language
George Francis Fitzgerald
Sources (6)

via Wikidata · CC0

~6 min read

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.

Gallery (3)