Originally trained for the ministry, Edward Williams Morley decided instead in 1868 to pursue a career in science, the other great love of his life. At first he devoted himself primarily to teaching, but gradually became engaged in more original...

Morley was the eldest of four children born to a Congregationalist minister in Newark, New Jersey in 1838. He entered Williams College at age nineteen, and upon his graduation in 1860 he promptly enrolled at Andover Theological Seminary. While...

American physicist Originally trained for the ministry, Edward Williams Morley decided instead in 1868 to pursue a career in science, the other great love of his life. Initially, Morley devoted himself primarily to teaching, but gradually became...

1838-1923 American chemist who in 1887 performed, in collaboration with Albert Michelson, the crucial experiments showing the medium called ether does not exist. The ether was thought to be a massless substance that pervaded all of space, even a...

Edward Williams Morley (January 29, 1838 - February 24 1923) was an American...

IVAN MORLEY PATRICK PAINTER Ivan Morley's paintings are inspired by the frontiersman's lore of scrappy, dried-out California towns with names like San Gabriel, El Monte, and Tehachapi. Such locales and their all-but-forgotten (and possibly artist-fabricated) histories-if you can call tales of memorable...

MALCOLM MORLEY SPERONE WESTWATER "Jock art," or art that incorporates sports imagery, is a much-maligned genre-right up there with paintings of wild animals and portraits of Elvis on velvet-but that only makes it ripe for recuperation. Many great moments in American art...