When1: 1892
Who: George Francis Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, George Francis]
What: physicist
Where: Ireland
Detail: He lived 1844 to 1894 and tried to measure electric wavelength. He said that matter moving near light speed contracts in motion direction {Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction} [1892].
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