An American Scientist on the Research Frontier Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hamerla, Ralph R. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Σειρά: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 13
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Physics.; Popular works.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Popular Science, general.

An American Scientist on the Research Frontier is the first scholarly study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley. In part, it is the long-overdue story of a man who lent his name to the Michelson and Morley Ether-Drift Experiment, and who conclusively established the a...