Edward williams morley biography sample

  • Edward Williams Morley was an American chemist who is best known for his collaboration with the physicist A.A. Michelson in an attempt to.
  • The Edward Williams Morley Family Papers consist of correspondence and a small number of miscellaneous papers of members of the Morley family from to
  • In , the 30 year old Edward Williams Morley, from Williams College in Massachusetts, was appointed professor of chemistry and “natural history”.

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    The Edward Williams Morley Family Papers consist of correspondence and a small number of miscellaneous papers of members of the Morley family from to Although there are few holograph letters from the chemist Edward Williams Morley himself (see kartong 6, folder 15), the family correspondence provides an extensive record of an upper-class, educated New England family of prominent clerics and educators in nineteenth-century amerika. It also contains an important collection of Civil War letters, including those written to Edward in the army, and those written by his brothers, especially the correspondence of Frank Gibson Morley and his parents, and additionally the letters of their father, Sardis Brewster Morley, who served as an army chaplain.

    The collection is organized into the following series:

    1. Sardis Brewster Morley () Letters and Papers
    2. Edward Williams Mo

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      BornNewark, New Jersey, USA, 29 January

      DiedWest Hartford, Connecticut, USA, 24 February

      American chemist Edward Williams Morley is best known for his collaborative experiments with physicist Albert Michelson, which failed to detect an “ether‐drift” effect on the speed of light measured in different directions relative to the Earth's motion. The negativ result of the Michelson–Morley experiments may have helped inspire Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity.

      The son of a Congregational Minister, Morley received his BA () and MA () from his father's alma mater, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. There he studied with astronomer Albert Hopkins, who, during Morley's postgraduate year, guided his mounting of a transit instrument with which Morley then measured the college's latitude from observations of stars. In , Morley read a paper about his results before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and published it in their Proceedings. His

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      6. The Michelson-Morley Experiment

      Part II: Philanthropy

      Underlying the earliest years of University Circle’s life as a cultural center was a deep commitment by Cleveland’s industrial leadership to scientific and technological research. Leonard Case Jr.’s creation of Case School of Applied Science embodied that commitment, and Western Reserve’s scientists and science departments often had wealthy patrons. The support that underlay the historically significant light-wave researches of professors Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley in the s is an example of how philanthropy, in a variety of forms, became interwoven into the lives of Circle institutions.

      Professor Edward W. Morley of Western Reserve had begun a scientific career even before the college moved to Cleveland. Morley was the son of a minister; he received his schooling at home in the New England towns where his family lived when he was a child. In , at age nineteen, he enrolled at Williams College in Massa