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The Western reserve, edward morley, and oxygen : a brief historical introduction.
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PMID:  21445762     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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Edward Morley was an early member of the faculty of Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He was a very talented experimentalist who collaborated with Michelson of the Case School of Applied Science on the famous "Speed Of Light through the Ether" measurements in the 1880's. In the 1890's, Morley accomplished the difficult feat of providing the atomic weight of Oxygen, demonstrating by three separate quantitative methods and to the third decimal, that the atomic weight of oxygenwas 15.879, significantly less than the 16 predicted by the then current "Prout Hypothesis."
Authors:
Joseph C Lamanna
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Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Advances in experimental medicine and biology     Volume:  915     ISSN:  0065-2598     ISO Abbreviation:  Adv. Exp. Med. Biol.     Publication Date:  2011  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-03-29     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0121103     Medline TA:  Adv Exp Med Biol     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  3-8     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA, joseph.lamanna@case.edu.
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