Edith Anne Stoney
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Edith Anne Stoney was an Irish physicist. Born in Dublin in an old-established Anglo-Irish scientific family, she is considered to be the first woman medical physicist.
Edith Anne Stoney c. early 1890s
Edith Stoney's medals held at Newnham College, Cambridge. From left to right: British War Medal (reverse), Victory Medal (obverse), Serbian Order of St Sava (reverse), French Croix de Guerre (reverse) and French “Médaille des épidémies" (reverse).
From left to right: Edith Stoney (left), with her sister Florence and father Johnstone
George Francis FitzGerald
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George Francis FitzGerald was an Irish theoretical physicist known for hypothesising length contraction, which became an integral part of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity.
Edith Anne Stoney
…of the Royal Society (FRS). One of her two sisters, Florence Stoney, was a radiologist and received an OBE. Her cousin was the Dublin-based physicist George Francis FitzGerald FRS (1851–1901), and her uncle Bindon Blood Stoney FRS was Engineer of Dublin Port, renowned for building a number of the main Dublin bridges, and…
FitzGerald, 1890s
George Francis Fitzgerald flying in College Park in 1895
Plaque at 7 Ely Place, Dublin, where FitzGerald lived