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  George Francis Fitzgerald
George Francis Fitzgerald was a brilliant 19th century Irish physicist who is best remembered today as one of the proposers of a theory on the relativity of space with speed, now known as the Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction.
George Fitzgerald was born at Monkstown, Co. Dublin in 1851.
George Fitzgerald died in 1901 at the early age of 49, an outcome determined at least in part by overwork.
www.ucc.ie /academic/undersci/pages/sci_georgefrancisfitzgerald.htm   (891 words)

  
 FitzGerald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
George FitzGerald was a brilliant mathematical physicist who today is known by most scientists as one of the proposers of the FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction in the theory of relativity.
George's mother was the daughter of George Stoney from Birr in King's County and she was also from an intellectual family.
George's schooling was at home where, together with his brothers and sisters, he was tutored by M A Boole, who was George Boole's sister.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/FitzGerald.html   (2879 words)

  
 Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction hypothesis was proposed by George FitzGerald and independently proposed and extended by Hendrik Lorentz to explain the negative result of the Michelson-Morley experiment, which attempted to detect Earth's motion relative to the luminiferous aether.
After reading a paper by Heaviside in which was shown that electric and magnetic fields are deformed by motion, FitzGerald inferred that similarly, when a body moves through space it experiences a deformation due to motion, and that this may explain the "null result".
Lorentz showed independently how such an effect might be expected based on electromagnetic theory and the electrical constitution of matter, that is, when a body moves through space its dimension parallel to the line of motion might become less by an amount dependent on its speed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorentz-Fitzgerald_contraction_hypothesis   (497 words)

  
 College Papers-Gatsby`s Minor Characters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fitzgerald uses Myrtle because it shows how Tom thinks of her as one of his possessions, she is displayed openly to all of Tom’s friends and acquaintances and they all freely accept her.
Fitzgerald shows the reader that George reacts to the loss of his wife with a show of grief that reveals a love that is beyond Tom’s capacity.
Fitzgerald’s main goal, for the use of Myrtle, was to not so much to scare the reader into questioning his/her own self worth, but to suggest to the reader that you do not have to blinded by money to be disillusioned in life.
www.college-papers.org /free_essays/english/great-gatsbys-minor-charactersmnn.html   (1535 words)

  
 California AHGP - Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzgerald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fitzgerald accompanied her parents and the remainder of the family on their emigration to America, the home being established in Butler county, Pennsylvania, where the parents both spent the remainder of their lives.
Fitzgerald came with a sister and a cousin, the latter being Gabriel Etsel, to California, crossing the isthmus, and landing in due time in the Golden state.
Fitzgerald is numbered among the representative and well known pioneer women of her locality, enjoying the good will and esteem of her many friends.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ca/state1/biographies/mrsefitzgerald.html   (351 words)

  
 Dec. 4, 00  Minutes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
George Fitzgerald as first alternate to the Grosse Pointes-Clinton Disposal Authority and to confirm the appointments of William Sowerby and Ernest Hornung as members of the Authority and Richard Walker as alternate, as recommended.
Fitzgerald, to receive, file and concur with the correspondence from Richard and Colleen Bolan and approve the request to waive the sidewalk requirement for the property at 16267 Seventeen Mile Road, with the stipulation that the petitioners sign a covenant to the Township to provide for future installation of the sidewalk.
Fitzgerald to receive, file and concur with the correspondence from the Assessor dated November 29, 2000, and approve the purchase of the computer server from Network Connections in the amount of $19,774 for hardware and $1,600 for labor and waive the bid procedure.
www.clintontownship.com /clerk/brdmtg/tm120400.htm   (2016 words)

  
 Read Full Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fitzgerald was a former resident of this town and the remains were brought here for burial.
Fitzgerald was an upright, genial man, calculated to make friends, and a host of them will mourn his death.
The Eastern Gazette 7-7-1904, p.5 GEORGE FRANCIS FITZGERALD 1832 - 1904 George Francis Fitzgerald, son of George and Eunice (Hook) Fitzgerald was born in Dexter, December 1, 1832, and died in Oakland, Maine, July 4, 1904.
www.abbott-library.com /readobit.php?obitid=85   (167 words)

  
 Lakewood City Council Agendas
George said that despite the Committee not recommending suspension of the rules and Judge Carroll's indication that there was no immediacy to the adoption, that he would suggest adoption of the ordinances before the summer recess.
George stated there were no guarantees this would be successful that there were some property owners in the area that made a decision not to sell under any circumstances.
FitzGerald said he didn't find the substance of the Resolution troubling but was concerned that similar to a couple of years ago when there was a debate and eventual vote on health benefits for same sex partners the process ended up divisive.
www.ci.lakewood.oh.us /citygovern_council_minutes.html   (13848 words)

  
 D. J. Fitzgerald's Clara and George: An Historical Novel
George said, "That organist, who is she?" Harry said, "Clara Jones and we are going to the Jones' home for lunch." Thereafter George settled and began acting rationally again.
George made application for land and was granted 912 acres of scrub country east of Beverley, and so once again the axeman's art was used to its fullest extent, and in record time George assisted by his family, had his land under cultivation.
Young George Fitzgerald, whom she had met at the Brookton church in 1910, had become a regular visitor to the Jones' home, and she was engaged to be married to him at some time in the then reasonably uncertain future.
www.mun.ca /rels/hrollmann/restmov/texts/dfitzgerald/CLARA1.HTM   (19407 words)

  
 Read Full Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
GEORGE FITZGERALD 1804 - 1858 George Fitzgerald came to Dexter at some time previous to the year 1837, since in that year he was elected town clerk.
George and Eunice Fitzgerald and two children who died in infancy are buried at Elmwood cemetery.
Three sons, Charles, George, Francis and Joseph H. learned the machinists trade and were for a time associated with their father.
www.abbott-library.com /readobit.php?obitid=84   (143 words)

  
 George S. Fitzgerald
GEORGE S. son of John and Jane (Spratlen) Fitzgerald natives of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, was born 10 November 1824 in Stokes County, North Carolina.
George S. Fitzgerald, the eighth child of ten, married Sarah B. Pritchett 12 December 1849, in Danville, Virginia, signed for by the mother of the bride, Eliza M.
In 1861, George joined the Confederate Army as a private in Company H of the Chickasaw Battalion, but was soon transferred to the ordnance department where he served until the end of the conflict.
www.rootsweb.com /~txgrayso/fitzgerald4.html   (1012 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
George's story isn't a sanitized 'Roddy Doyle Northsider' story, sanitized and fit for stage and screen, far far from it.
George's story tells what it was like as a child growing up in north Dublin, the drugs, the gangs, the 'hardmen', "St. Pat's", the tragic young deaths of over 160 friends and acquaintances and so on.
George, I say to you personally, you have an exceptional tallent for writing, my prayer is this book gets into many hands and hearts worldwide.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Parthenon/6528/likesme.htm   (637 words)

  
 The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography: FitzGerald, George Francis (1851-1901)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He is best known, however, for the theoretical phenomenon called the Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction which he and, independently, Hendrik Lorentz proposed to account for the negative result of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment on the velocity of light.
FitzGerald was born in Dublin on 3 August 1851.
He was a nephew of the physicist George Stoney, and received his initial education at home,...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28910579&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (173 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
One morning George Fitzgerald awoke, put his feet to the floor, and was shocked to discover his feet covered by several inches of water.
George Fitzgerald served in the Confederate Army as a private in Company E Texas Infantry, Hubbard's TX Infantry.
George, a farmer and stock raiser, and Martha/Pattie, were parents of five children, all born in the same room of their home near Savoy, Fannin County, Texas.
www.bellstexas.com /families/einge.txt   (2184 words)

  
 Adventures in CyberSound: FitzGerald, George Francis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
FitzGerald became a tutor at Trinity College in Dublin in 1877 and professor of natural and experimental philosophy in 1881.
The experiment was an attempt to measure the Earth's motion relative to the pervasive luminiferous ether postulated as the medium within which light waves were propagated.
In 1892 FitzGerald suggested that when in motion, a body is shorter (along its line of motion) than when at rest and that such a shortening, or contraction, affects the instruments used in the experiment.
www.acmi.net.au /AIC/FITZGERALD_BIO.html   (239 words)

  
 The Crpyt presents: Pine Barrens - Charlton County History
At that time the settlement was known as Cutler's Station, a sleepy little community before Fitzgerald began his colonization, bringing in scores of families from the mid-west.
When Harris arrived in Saint George, he immediately set out to get a school built for the hundred of youngsters who claimed the boomtown as their hometown.
In the early days of Saint George, he recalled sleeping in a "Hot bed," used in shifts by workers in the booming city when sleeping quarters became scarce.
www.camdencounty.org /pinebarrens/harris.html   (1139 words)

  
 Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
George Francis FitzGerald was born at No 19 Lower Mount Street on 3rd August 1851, That was the year the first census after the famine revealed a 25 % decline in the population of many Irish counties.
Fitzgerald was a fine-looking man. We have no oil painting, but a charcoal portrait of him in his late 20's was made by John Butler Yeats.
FitzGerald enthusiastically promulgated Hertz's discovery in his presidential speech at the Bath meeting of the BA in 1888.
www.tcd.ie /Physics/History/Fitzgerald/GFFG-JMDC/intro.php   (1121 words)

  
 Fitzgerald, George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1892 he explained the anomalous results of the Michelson-Morley experiment 1887 by supposing that bodies moving through the ether contracted as their velocity increased, an effect since known as the Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction.
Fitzgerald was born in Dublin and studied there at Trinity College, where he was professor of natural and experimental philosophy from 1888.
Fitzgerald predicted that a rapidly oscillating (that is, alternating) electric current should result in the radiation of electromagnetic waves - a prediction proved correct in the late 1880s by Heinrich Hertz's early experiments with radio, which Fitzgerald brought to the attention of the scientific community in Britain.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/F/Fitzgerald/1.html   (168 words)

  
 George Fitzgerald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
George was born in 1954 and has lived in the Shenandoah Valley all of his life.
George started singing solo in church not long after that and started his own country band when he was 17, "The Crystal Cowboys", what a name!
But they switched instruments, George now on bass and Danny on guitar, and George eventually became the lead singer for the group.
users.adelphia.net /~troyfitz/gfbio.htm   (393 words)

  
 

Parking plans shifting into gear

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George said it's time to spend that money and said there's no need to wait until the Planning Commission has completed its review of a study prepared by Main Street Connections.
George has been pushing for a parking lot at an available property at the intersection of Hilliard Road and Madison Avenue.
FitzGerald said he sent out the survey mainly to see if there was interest in a city-wide discount shopping card.
www.sunnews.com /news/2001/0215/WPARKING.htm   (477 words)

  
 FitzGerald, George Francis --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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The novels and short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald are famous for portraying the “lost generation” of the post–World War I era.
George Wallace ran for President in 1964 to protest Lyndon Johnson's stand on civil rights.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034429   (879 words)

  
 Lakewood City Council Agendas
George added that Procurement Officer Sullivan indicated that approximately 150 of the memberships were approved by Council last year and only 88 were actually utilized.
George said that because the budget is very restricted for next year that a number of things would be looked at including cell phones.
George said that he looked at the Budget over the weekend and that there was an estimated year end balance of about $160,000.
www.ci.lakewood.oh.us /citygovern_council_minutes_101112.htm   (12015 words)

  
 George Fitzgerald's Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
rustee George Fitzgerald is one of the seven members of the Clinton Township Board of Trustees which is responsible for overseeing all Township operations.
George is a volunteer member of the Macomb County Sheriff's Department Marine Division, and is a member of their Executive Board.
George and his wife Julie Ariganello-Fitzgerald are homeowners in Clinton Township and have two children, William and Amanda.
www.clintontownship.com /trus/trusfitz.htm   (256 words)

  
 Flapper Culture & Style   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Her rise as a personality and as a film star was in keeping with the central phenomenom of the flapper era - the worship of youth.
Her tenure on stage (and later in the movies) brought her into contact with the wealthy, the artistic and the socially glamourous figures of the 1920's.
Fitzgerald's books were such a success that he became a kind of king to American youth; his queen was his beautiful, witty (and emotionally unstable) wife Zelda.
www.public.asu.edu /~dsalce/emc598/Jennifer_Ramirez/flapper.html   (1413 words)

  
 World Leaders
Washington, George, 1732 - 99, 1st President of the United States (1789—97), commander in chief of the Continental army in the American Revolution, called the Father of His Country.
After Lawrence's death (1752), George inherited part of his estate and took over some of Lawrence's duties as adjutant of the colony.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass., on May 29, 1917.
www.legalserviceindia.com /leaders/leader.htm   (1604 words)

  
 George Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tom’s opinion of George is clearly shown in chapter two when he says, “He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive”.
George’s personality in the book is important because it makes him so much different than all the other characters in the book.
George was very sad and had no other reason to live after he got his revenge because he had lost his real love and he had nothing left.
www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /99_00/LM/cf.htm   (356 words)

  
 Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts: 18th Century: Authors A-B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The DNB notes that Fitzgerald had been known, most of his life, for “his gallantry, his recklessness, and his duels,” but his execution tied his posthumous fame inexorably to this scandalous (and avidly observed, in both Ireland and England) trial.
The case of G.R. Fitzgerald, esquire, impartially considered, and his character and conduct vindicated....
The author’s note to the reader denies suggestions that the publication of the first edition was supervised by Fitzgerald himself.
www.prbm.com /INTEREST/18c-f.shtml   (2270 words)

  
 Management
He began his business career with Cantor Fitzgerald where he was a trader in the equity securities area.
After two years with Cantor Fitzgerald, George then worked for Jones and Associates for 3 years in a similar capacity.
With his partner, Randall Emmett, George formed the current production company in 1998 and is principally responsible for financing arrangements, distribution and has joint responsibility for concept development.
www.fmlyroom.com /html/_management.html   (503 words)

  
 Abbott, George Francis --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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U.S. director, producer, playwright, and actor George Abbott was known for his mastery of pacing and humor and ability to maintain effective action onstage.
In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9111985   (919 words)

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