An American Scientist on the Research Frontier
Ralph R. Hamerla
Broschiertes Buch

An American Scientist on the Research Frontier

Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science

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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 atomic weight of oxygen. It is also the untold story of science in provincial America: what Hamerla presents as science on the "American research frontier".This important examination of Morley's struggle for personal and professional legitimacy extends and transforms our understanding of science duri...