An American scientist on the research frontier Edward Morley, community, and radical ideas in nineteenth-century science /

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.

Main Author: Hamerla, R. R.
Other Authors: SpringerLink (Online Service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer, 2006.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) : figure.
Series: Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 13.
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