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As We Saw It: The Context of the Life of George Francis Fitzgerald

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

MICHAEL PURSER
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. Email: mpurser@tcd.ie

Abstract

Drawing on the traditions and perspectives of the author's own family and relatives, which included George Francis Fitzgerald, the society in which this notable physicist lived and worked in the late nineteenth century is sketched.

Type
Focus: Fitzgerald and the Maxwellians
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2007

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