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[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Thomas Preston],

Title

[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Thomas Preston],

Creator

Preston, Thomas, 1860-1900

Date

9 January 1897

Publisher

RDS Library & Archives

Identifier

GFF 11/40

Subject

Preston, Thomas, 1860-1900
Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943.
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867.
Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901

Description

Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 9 January 1897. Preston writes from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He describes his recent note for the RS [Royal Society?], which he has expanded by several pages. He describes an article in the Journal de Physique where he read an article about Becquerel [probably referring to Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel, a French physicist], who successfully connected the Faraday Rotation in a magnetic field with the Zeeman effect. Preston thinks that the method was accidental. He had considered the experiment himself previously. He thinks the facts should be established first. 4pp.

Source

RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters

Contributor

Preston, Thomas, 1860-1900
Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901. Correspondent
RDS Library & Archives

Rights

Copyright RDS Library & Archives. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the RDS Library & Archives.

Relation

RDS Science Archive

Format

Manuscript

Language

English

Type

Text

Coverage

1870-1901

Collection

George Francis Fitzgerald Letters

Citation

Preston, Thomas, 1860-1900, “[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Thomas Preston],,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed July 18, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/658.

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