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Authorised form of nameFitzgerald; George Francis (1851 - 1901)
Dates1851 - 1901
NationalityBritish
Place of birth19 Lower Mount Street, Dublin, Ireland
Date of birth03 August 1851
Place of death7 Ely Place, Dublin, Ireland
Date of death21 or 22 February 1901
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Dublin. BA (1871), MA
Career:
Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophical, University of Dublin (1881-1901); Honorary Secretary, Royal Dublin Society; developed the electro-magnetic theory of radiation
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1883
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1899
RelationshipsSon of Rev William Fitzgerald, Bishop of Cork, and his wife, sister of George Johnstone Stoney (FRS 1861); also nephew of Bindon Blood Stoney (FRS 1881); cousin of George Gerald Stoney (FRS 1911); married Harriette, daughter of John Hewitt Jellett DD
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 152-160, plate, signed by Oliver Joseph Lodge
References:
Brebis Bleaney, 'Centenary of the Zeeman Effect' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 131-136
Andrew Warwick, 'Frequency, Theorem and Formula: Remembering Joseph Larmor in Electromagnetic Theory' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 49-60, plate
Notes:
DSB gives death date as 21 February 1901
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/5733024
Royal Society codeNA7971
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1883/06Fitzgerald, George Francis: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/3/206Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society10 April 1889
NLB/12/302Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society27 January 1896
NLB/14/747Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society7 May 1897
RR/15/109Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'Energy of rontgen & becquerel rays and the energy required to produce an ion in gases' by Professor Ernest Rutherford and R K McClung11 July 1900
NLB/14/211Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]22 January 1897
NLB/14/151Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]13 January 1897
NLB/16/125Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society7 January 1898
NLB/15/48Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Francis George Fitzgerald, [Fellow of the Royal Society]15 June 1897
NLB/15/43Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to [George Francis] Fitzgerald, [Fellow of the Royal Society]11 June 1907
NLB/15/139Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society6 July 1897
NLB/15/205Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Secretary Royal Society15 July 1897
NLB/15/426Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1897
NLB/15/492Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society13 October 1897
NLB/16/148Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to R T Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]10 February 1898
NLB/17/108Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Joseph Larmor, [Fellow of the Royal Society]18 July 1898
NLB/17/275Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society29 September 1898
NLB/17/302Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Joseph Larmor, Fellow of the Royal Society6 October 1898
NLB/19/606Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society8 November 1899
NLB/20/703Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1900
NLB/20/701Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1900
NLB/20/676Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society15 June 1900
NLB/20/743Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society28 June 1900
NLB/21/35Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society18 July 1900
NLB/21/3Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office,S.W.14 July 1900
NLB/21/9Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University of London, South Kensington, S.W.16 July 1900
NLB/21/4Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1900
NLB/24/695Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Hollinger & Company, New York20 June 1902
RR/13/209Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the theory of the magneto-optic phenomena of iron, nickel, and cobalt' by J G Leathem10 July 1897
RR/11/186Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the mathematical theory of electromagnetism' by Alex McAuley25 February 1892
RR/13/112Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'Problems in electric convection' by George Frederick Charles Searle31 March 1896
RR/11/9Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset11 March 1891
RR/12/162Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'A dynamical theory of the electric and luminiferous medium' by Joseph Larmor19 April 1894
RR/12/290Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the ratio of the specific heats of some compound gases' by J W Capstick27 March 1895
RR/14/194Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'Electrical conductivity in gases traversed by cathode rays' by John Cunningham McLennan7 February 1900
RR/14/86Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'An experiment in search of a directive action of one quartz crystal on another' by John Henry Poynting and P L Gray24 October 1898
RR/14/217Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the vibrations in the field round a theoretical hertzian oscillator' by Karl Pearson and Alice Lee11 February 1899
RR/15/119Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'The diffusion of ions produced in air by the action of a radio-active substance, ultra-violet light & point discharges' by John Sealy Edward Townsend30 June 1900
MM/17/48Letter from Heinrich Hertz to Fitzgerald11 June 1888
NLB/17/369Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society19 October 1898
NLB/20/694Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs19 June 1900
RR/12/284Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the applications of the kinetic theory to dense gases' by Samuel Hawksley Burbury1 June 1895
RR/10/76Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On evaporation and dissociation. Part V. A study of the thermal properties of methyl-alcohol' by William Ramsay and Sydney Young26 March 1887
RR/11/12Third letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society22 June 1891
RR/12/161Letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A dynamical theory of the electric and luminiferous medium' by Joseph Larmor9 February 1894
RR/14/42Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'An extension of Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light to include dispersion, metallic reflection, and allied phenomena' by Edwin Edser17 March 1898
PP/9/6Paper, 'On the specific heats of minerals' by John Joly1886
PP/9/12Paper, 'On the method of condensation in calorimetry' by John Joly1886
PP/9/12/1Manuscript, 'On the method of condensation in calorimetry' by John Joly1886
PP/10/28Paper, 'Clausius's formula for the change of state from liquid to gas applied to Messrs. Ramsay and Young's observations on alcohol' by George Francis Fitzgerald1887
PP/10/8Paper, 'On the thermodynamic properties of substances whose intrinsic equation is a linear function of the pressure and temperature' by George Francis Fitzgerald1887
PP/15/8Paper, 'Observations on the spark discharge' by John Joly1889
PP/15/8/1Manuscript, 'Observations on the spark discharge' by John Joly1889
RR/10/307Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the magnetic action of displacement-currents in a dielectric' by Silvanus Phillips Thompson28 March 1889
RR/11/10Letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society12 March 1891
RR/11/11Second letter from George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of light at the surface of a magnetized medium' by Alfred Barnard Basset to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, Secretary of the Royal Society16 March 1891
RR/12/308Referee's report by George Francis Fitzgerald, on a paper 'On the ascent of sap' by Henry Horatio Dixon and John Joly17 November 1894
RR/12/395Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on four papers 'Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William Ramsay, 'The liquefaction and solidification of argon' by K Olszewski, 'On the spectra of argon' by William Crookes, 'On the spark spectrum of argon as it appears in the spark spectrum of air' by Walter Noel Hartley, and a letter from George Francis Fitzgerald to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh13 February 1895
RR/12/396Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on four papers 'Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere' by John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh and William Ramsay, 'The liquefaction and solidification of argon' by K Olszewski, 'On the spectra of argon' by William Crookes, 'On the spark spectrum of argon as it appears in the spark spectrum of air' by Walter Noel Hartley, and a letter from George Francis Fitzgerald to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh18 February 1895
PP/22/3Paper, 'On the motion under gravity of fluid bubbles through vertical columns of liquid of a different density' by Frederick Thomas Trouton1893
PP/15/17Paper, 'On the steam calorimeter' by J [John] Joly1889
PP/15/17/1Manuscript, 'On the steam calorimeter' by J [John] Joly1889
NLB/19/564Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards2 November 1899
NLB/19/602Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards8 November 1899
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/25/165Letter from Maunsell, Darley & Orpen, 18 Stephen's Green North, Dublin, to The Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W26 July 1910
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