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  1. 1851-1901. Irish physicist known for his work
  2. on electromagnetics. In 1895 he explained the
  3. anomalous results of the Michelson-Morley
  4. experiment 1887 by supposing that bodies
  5. moving through the ether contracted as their
  6. velocity increased, an effect since known as
  7. the Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction.
  8.