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BL
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984962
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b739332
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| Main Entry
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Hamerla, R. R.
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| Title & Author
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An American scientist on the research frontier : : Edward Morley, community, and radical ideas in nineteenth-century science /\ by Ralph R. Hamerla.
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| Publication Statement
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Dordrecht :: Springer,, 2006.
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| Series Statement
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Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ;; v. 13
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1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) :: figure
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| ISBN
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1280624760
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: 1402040881
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: 140204089X
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: 6610624763
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: 9781280624766
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: 9781402040887
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: 9781402040894
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: 9786610624768
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction; The Morleys; Edward Morley: Education, Civil War, and the Western Reserve; Making a Place; Kindred Spirits: The Ether Drift; Intellectual Heritage, Prout's Hypothesis; Oxygen.
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| Abstract
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Presents a study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley. This is a 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 story of science in provincial America.
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Morley, Edward Williams,1838-1923.
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Morley, Edward Williams,1838-1923.
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Morley, Edward Williams,1838-1923.
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Research-- United States-- History.
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Scientists-- United States, Biography.
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Recherche.
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Scientifiques-- États-Unis.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science Technology.
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Research.
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Sciences humaines.
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Sciences sociales.
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Scientists.
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Chemie.
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Research-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Scientists-- United States.
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Wetenschapsdynamica.
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Chemie.
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Wetenschapsdynamica.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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509.2B
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| LC Classification
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Q143.M82H36 2006eb
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| NLM classification
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30.02bcl
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35.01bcl
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K837. 126. 1clc
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