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

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

GFF 11/40

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.

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