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Michelson has the sword

Monrley the double pistols

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Albert Abraham Michelson (Strzelno, 19 December 1852 - Pasadena, 9 May 1931) was an American physicist.

In 1887 he collaborated with colleague Edward Williams Morley of Western Reserve University, now part of Case Western Reserve University, in the Michelson-Morley experiment.
With this experiment the expected movement of the Earth with respect to the ether, hypothetical means of light propagation, had to be tested, but the result was null. Surprised, Michelson repeated the experiment over the following years, obtaining ever greater precision but without ever being able to detect the existence of ether.
The Michelson-Morley results were very influential in the physics community, to the point of inducing Hendrik Lorentz to develop his equations on length contraction to justify the null result.
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Edward Williams Morley (Newark, January 29, 1838 - West Hartford, February 24, 1923) was an American physicist.
He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Williams College in 1860.
From 1869 to 1906 he taught chemistry at Western Reserve College, today Case Western Reserve University.
His most important work was the famous Michelson-Morley experiment based on the Michelson interferometer, which he conducted together with Albert Abraham Michelson and Dayton Miller in 1887.
Neither he nor Michelson found that it definitively denied the existence of the ether, a fact that became evident after Albert Einstein formulated the special theory of relativity.
He also worked to determine the chemical composition of the earth's atmosphere, to study thermal expansion and to determine the speed of light in a magnetic field.

Description

Michelson has the sword

Monrley the double pistols

*Google Translate*

Albert Abraham Michelson (Strzelno, 19 December 1852 - Pasadena, 9 May 1931) was an American physicist.

In 1887 he collaborated with colleague Edward Williams Morley of Western Reserve University, now part of Case Western Reserve University, in the Michelson-Morley experiment.
With this experiment the expected movement of the Earth with respect to the ether, hypothetical means of light propagation, had to be tested, but the result was null. Surprised, Michelson repeated the experiment over the following years, obtaining ever greater precision but without ever being able to detect the existence of ether.
The Michelson-Morley results were very influential in the physics community, to the point of inducing Hendrik Lorentz to develop his equations on length contraction to justify the null result.
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Edward Williams Morley (Newark, January 29, 1838 - West Hartford, February 24, 1923) was an American physicist.
He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Williams College in 1860.
From 1869 to 1906 he taught chemistry at Western Reserve College, today Case Western Reserve University.
His most important work was the famous Michelson-Morley experiment based on the Michelson interferometer, which he conducted together with Albert Abraham Michelson and Dayton Miller in 1887.
Neither he nor Michelson found that it definitively denied the existence of the ether, a fact that became evident after Albert Einstein formulated the special theory of relativity.
He also worked to determine the chemical composition of the earth's atmosphere, to study thermal expansion and to determine the speed of light in a magnetic field.