Edward W. Morley
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...
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Morley, Edward Williams (1838-1923)
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 li...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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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 enro...
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Edward W. Morley
Morley, Edward Williams (1838-1923)
Edward Williams Morley
Edward Williams Morley
Edward Williams Morley