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Michelson-Morley Memorial Fountain

This experiment proved the non-existence of the luminiferous ether and was later cited as circumstantial evidence in support of special relativity as proposed by Albert Einstein in 1905.


Hammar experiment

In the 1920s, Dayton Miller conducted repetitions of the Michelson–Morley experiments, which allegedly gave a positive result.

History of special relativity

A possible solution to the problem was shown by Woldemar Voigt (1887), who investigated the Doppler effect for waves propagating in an incompressible elastic medium and deduced transformation relations that left the Wave equation in free space unchanged, and explained the negative result of the Michelson-Morley Experiment.

Regarding the Relativity Principle, the moving magnet and conductor problem (possibly after reading a book of August Föppl) and the various negative aether drift experiments were important for him to accept that principle — but he denied any significant influence of the most important experiment: the Michelson-Morley experiment.

John August Anderson

His most notable contribution was his adaptation of the Michelson's interferometer technique for measuring close double stars.

Laurie J. Michelson

On July 25, 2013, President Obama nominated Michelson to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, to the seat vacated by Judge George Caram Steeh III, who took senior status on January 29, 2013.

Lisa Michelson

Lisa P. Michelson (March 1958—1991) was an American voice actress best known for her English roles in the Streamline dubs.

Michelson Prize and Grants in Reproductive Biology

To aid scientists in pursuing this goal, the Michelson Grants are available in quantities of approximately $250,000 per year per grant, totaling up to $50 million, for research pursuing innovative approaches to non-surgical sterilization technology for companion animals.

Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment

It's also possible to define rotating frames in special relativity (Born coordinates), yet in those frames the speed of light is not constant in extended areas any more, thus also in this view a positive result must occur.

Michelson–Morley Award

It was renamed in 1968 by the newly formed Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) after the federation between the Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University.

Nevile Gardiner

He was survived by his wife, Madeleine Michelson, daughter of Dr. Albert A. Michelson, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Richard Q. Twiss

When the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh established its outstation at Monte Porzio Catone just south of Rome, Twiss decided to move his Michelson interferometer there.

Robert S. Shankland

In the British journal Nature, Shankland gave the historical background of how Einstein formulates the first two principles, in 1905, of the special theory of relativity from the Michelson-Morley experiment.

Television/A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment

The English-language translation by Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson was first published in Issue 40 of October Journal in 1987 under the editorship of Joan Copjec.

Truman Michelson

Truman Michelson (1879–1938) was a linguist and anthropologist who worked from 1910 until his death for the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution.


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