Memoirs Of The National Academy Of Sciences 1896 Vol 8 Classic Reprint

Author : Ralph R. Hamerla
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402040887
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book An American Scientist on the Research Frontier written by Ralph R. Hamerla and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 during a foundational period, and leads to a number of unique conclusions that are vital to the literature and historiography of science. By revealing important aspects of the scientific culture of the American heartland, An American Scientist on the Research Frontier deepens our understanding of an individual scientist and of American science more broadly. In so doing, Hamerla changes the way we approach and understand the creation of scientific knowledge, scientific communities, and the history of science itself.