Edward Morley, community, and radical ideas in nineteenth-century science /
by Ralph R. Hamerla.
Dordrecht :
Springer,
2006.
1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) :
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Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ;
v. 13
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.
Introduction; The Morleys; Edward Morley: Education, Civil War, and the Western Reserve; Making a Place; Kindred Spirits: The Ether Drift; Intellectual Heritage, Prout's Hypothesis; Oxygen.
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Presents a study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley. This is a story of a man who lent his name to the Michelson and Morley Ether-Drift Experiment, and who conclusively established the atomic weight of oxygen. It is also the story of science in provincial America.
Springer
978-1-4020-4088-7
American scientist on the research frontier.
9781402040887
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Morley, Edward Williams,1838-1923.
Morley, Edward Williams,1838-1923.
Morley, Edward Williams,1838-1923.
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Research-- United States-- History-- 19th century.