Edward Williams Morley (January 29, 1838 – February 24, 1923) was an American scientist known for his precise and accurate measurement of the atomic weight...
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April and July 1887 by American physicists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio,...
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Michelson interferometer (redirect from Michelson-Morley interferometer)
experiments and became well known for its use by Michelson and Edward Morley in the famous Michelson–Morley experiment (1887) in a configuration which would have...
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Edward Morley Callaghan CC OOnt FRSC (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality...
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Robert Adolph Wilton Morley (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who enjoyed a lengthy career in both Britain and the United States. He was...
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Edward Morley (7 February 1873 – 5 June 1929) was an Australian politician. He was born in Malmsbury, Victoria to quarryman George Morley and Mary Cahill...
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was the ASA president from 1931 to 1933. In 1900, he began work with Edward Morley on the detection of aether drift, at the time one of the "hot" areas...
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John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM, PC, FRS, FBA (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923), was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper...
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physics from eastern and western colleges, including Albert Michelson and Edward Morley; attendees from Canada, Germany, and Russia; and Hopkins faculty and...
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Edward W. Morley School is an elementary school in the West Hartford Public School District. The school is named after Edward W. Morley, a professor of...
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The Edward W. Morley House is a historic house and National Historic Landmark at 26 Westland Avenue in West Hartford, Connecticut. It is notable as the...
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University Edward Thomas (priest) (1700–1753), Anglican priest in Ireland Edward W. Thomas, United States Air Force general Ned Thomas (Edward Morley Thomas)...
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Baron Morley was a title in the peerage of England. On 29 December 1299 William Morley, lord of the manor of Morley Saint Botolph in Norfolk, was summoned...
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physicist Albert Michelson and Reserve chemist Edward Morley collaborated on the famous Michelson–Morley experiment. There had been some discussion of...
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developing an improved interferometer. In 1887 he and Edward Morley carried out the famous Michelson–Morley experiment which failed to detect evidence of the...
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constitution of the group was written by Hale, George Comstock, Edward Morley, Simon Newcomb and Edward Charles Pickering. These men, plus four others, were the...
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Petersburg, Russia. Trent (1797 ship), of 284 tons (bm), was launched by Edward Morley, Howden. She suffered major misfortunes in 1836 and 1843, and was wrecked...
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Morley Safer (November 8, 1931 – May 19, 2016) was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known...
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in the local newspapers seeking a business partner. George W. Morley and Edward W. Morley, two brothers from Painesville, Ohio, descendants of New England...
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Earl of Morley, of Morley in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for John Parker, 2nd Baron Boringdon...
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a large pension, indicating that Edward recognised the debt Morley was owed. This policy was not confined to Edward III; the French king also employed...
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disproving existence of "ether"; first American to receive a Nobel Prize Edward Morley – performed interferometry experiment with Michelson Ferid Murad – co-winner...
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Hamerla, Ralph R. (2006). An American Scientist on the Research Frontier: Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science. Dordrecht...
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Forest in Nottingham, UK Edward Morley, namesake of Morley Elementary School, scientist best known for the Michelson–Morley experiment John O'Hurley,...
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Morley College is a specialist adult education and further education college in London, England. The college has three main campuses, one in Waterloo on...
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Nichols Edward Lee (scientist) Edward Mills Purcell Edward Morley Edward Nairne Edward P. Ney Edward Pigot Edward Ramberg Edward Salisbury Dana Edward Samuel...
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30 October 1426) married (1) Hugh de Hastings and (2) Thomas de Morley, 4th Baron Morley William Caferro, John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century...
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modern-day adaptation. Edward Bracey in the 2014 drama documentary Richard III: The Princes in the Tower. Caspar Morley played Edward in the BBC's 2016 adaptation...
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1836), pp. 239-40. Edward Town, A Biographical Dictionary of London Painters, 1547–1625', Walpole Society, 76 (London, 2014), p. 51: Edward Town & Olivia Fryman...
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Morley Old Hall, near Norwich, in Norfolk, a Grade I-listed manor house Saltram House, Plympton, Plymouth, former home to the Earls of Morley Edward W...
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