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Author Hamerla, R. R

Title An American scientist on the research frontier : Edward Morley, community, and radical ideas in nineteenth-century science / by Ralph R. Hamerla
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) : figure
Series Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 13
Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 13.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Analysis filosofie
philosophy
fysica
physics
geschiedenis
history
wetenschap
science
geesteswetenschappen
humanities
wetenschapsfilosofie
philosophy of science
Philosophy (General)
Filosofie (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index
Notes English
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Subject Morley, Edward Williams, 1838-1923.
SUBJECT Morley, Edward Williams, 1838-1923. cct
Morley, Edward Williams, 1838-1923 fast
Subject Scientists -- United States -- Biography
Research -- United States -- History
Scientists -- United States.
Research.
Research
research (function)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
Chemie.
Wetenschapsdynamica.
Scientists -- United States.
Research -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Research
Scientists
Chemie.
Wetenschapsdynamica.
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007416639
ISBN 9781402040894
140204089X
1402040881
9781402040887
6610624763
9786610624768
1280624760
9781280624766