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George Francis FitzGerald ír fizikus, a „természetfilozófia” professzora a dublini Trinity College-ban. A 19. század utolsó negyedében tevékenykedett. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. augusztus 1851 – 22. február 1901
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“If Universities do not study useless subjects, who will?”

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[The Value of Useless Studies, Nature, 25 February 1892, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000047662452;view=1up;seq=433] (p. 392)

“When two surfaces at different temperatures are in presence of one another with a gas between them, there exists a force tending to separate them. The assumption of this force explains a very great number of phenomena, including the motion of the arms of Mr. Crooke's radiometers and the so-called spheroidal state of liquids.”

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March 1878 quoted in [The Scientific Writings of the Late George Francis FitzGerald, https://books.google.com/books?id=2le7lpdAJ5EC&pg=PA18] (p. 18)