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Albert A. Michelson
Albert A. Michelson (1851 - 1931) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1907 for his optical precision instruments and the research he carried out in the fields of precision metrology and ...
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Michelson-Morley Experiment
Good overview of this important experiment.
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Michelson- Morley Experiment
A review of the experiment which disproved the existence of the ether. This page opens at an apparatus diagram but the History section is probably a better place to start.
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Why Was Michelson Surprised?
Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, first published in 1865, suggests that light propagates as a wave with a fixed characteristic speed. It was commonly assumed that this speed must be evaluated ...
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