Edward Williams Morley Papers 1833-1923 (bulk 1863-1899)

Böttger, Wilhelm, b. 1871.

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Hempel, Walter, 1851-1916.

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Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915

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Frederic Ward Putnam (1839-1915) was one of the earliest anthropologists in the United States. He founded anthropology programs, and worked to establish museum collections in anthropology. He directed some of the first field expeditions in the Americas, including sites in Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, New Jersey, and California. Putnam was born April 16, 1839 in Salem, Massachusetts to Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Putnam III. In 1864, Putnam married Adelaide Martha Edmands; they h...

Higgins, William, Sir, 1824-1910

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Dixon, Harold Baily, 1852-1930

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Armstrong, Henry Edward, 1848-1937

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English chemist. From the description of Papers, 1869-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83026872 Henry Edward Armstrong: Born Lewisham, London, 1848; educated at the Royal College of Chemistry, 1865-1867, University of Leipzig, 1867-1870; lecturer, St Batholomew's Hospital, 1870; Professor of Chemistry, London Institution, 1870; elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1876; Professor of Chemistry at the Cowper Street Schools (later Finsbury Technical College), 1...

Soddy, Frederick, 1877-1956

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Physical chemist; Fellow of the Royal Society and Nobel prize winner; Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Oxford, 1919-1936. Discoverer of isotopes. From the description of Papers, 1913-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84011697 Chemist. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1894-1895; Merton College, Oxford, 1896-1898; private research in Oxford, 1898-1899; Demonstrator, McGill University, Montreal and work with Rutherford on Atomic Disentegration Theory, ...

Rayleigh, John William Strutt, baron, 1842-1919

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John William Strutt, the Third Baron Rayleigh, an English physicist, was born in Terling, Essex, in 1842. He attended Cambridge University and in 1879 became professor of experimental physics there and director of its Cavendish Laboratory until 1884. He later was on the faculty at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, became chancellor of Cambridge University, and was a founder of the National Physics Laboratory in Teddington, England. Strutt, who with Lord William Ramsey, discovered the first...

Remsen, Ira, 1846-1927

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Chemist, co-discoverer of saccharin. From the description of Letters to Sylvester Baxter and S.S. McClure, 1887-1892. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50903196 Ira Remsen was a chemist and professor of chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University. He was born in New York City, Feb. 10, 1846. In accordance with his father's wishes, Remsen studied medicine, receiving the M.D. in 1867. In 1868 he abandoned medical practice to devote himself to...

Swann, W. F. G. (William Francis Gray), 1884-1962

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William Francis Gray Swann was a physicist. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1900]-1962. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122473994 Physicist and historian of science Thomas Darlington Cope received his A.B. (1903) and Ph.D. (1915) from the University of Pennsylvania; he became an instructor and later professor there from 1906-1952. He also studied at the University of Berlin (1912-1913) under Max Planck. From the guide to the Tho...

Baker, Herbert Brereton, 1862-1935

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Republican state representative, 1907-1912, speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, 1911, state senator, 1919-1922, and official of the Farmers' National Council, the National Gleaner Federation, the Michigan State Grange and other farm and insurance organizations. From the description of Herbert F. Baker papers, 1904-1926. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420735 ...

Guye, Phillippe-Auguste, 1862-1922

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Rogers, William A. (William Augustus), 1832-1898

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Noyes, William A. (William Albert), 1857-1941

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Erdmann, Hugo, 1862-1910

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Mendenhall, Thomas C. (Thomas Corwin), 1841-1924

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Physicist and educator (geophysics, geodesy). On the faculty of Ohio State University in physics and mechanics, 1873-1884; and superintendent, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1889-1894. From the description of Papers, 1851-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154306263 At the time of this letter, Mendenhall was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1889. (U...

Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906

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Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as the director of the Allegheny Observatory and a professory of astronomy at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh). While at the Smithsonian he founded the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory....

Hicks, W. M. (William Mitchinson), 1850-1934

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Epithet: FRS, Principal of University College Sheffield British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x00038d ...

Larmor, Joseph, 1857-1942

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Physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters to Lord Rayleigh, 1896-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155003828 Educated at Queen's College, Belfast and St. John's College Cambridge. Professor of natural philosophy, Queen's Colege Galway 1880-1885. Lecturer in mathematics, University of Cambridge 1885-1903. Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge 1903. F. R. S. 1892. Royal Medal 1915. Copley Medal 1921. Secretary of Royal Society 1901. M....

Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931

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Albert Abraham Michelson (December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was an American physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science. He was also the founder and the first head of the physics department of the University of Chicago....

Munson, Myron A. (Myron Andrews), 1835-

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Munson (A. B. 1860, A. M. 1865 from Andover Theological Seminary) was a Congregational minister and author. From the description of Papers, 1857-1887. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612823664 From the description of Papers, 1857-1887. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612823631 ...

Kelvin, William Thomson, baron, 1824-1907

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Physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79617799 From the description of Papers, 1905-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80830683 From the description of Correspondence, 1836-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84971911 British mathematician and physicist. From the description of Letters signed (2) and autograph postcard signed : Glasgow, to W.A. Knight, 1890 Jan. 25...

Morley, Edward Williams, 1838-1923

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Chemist and physician. From the description of Edward Williams Morley papers, 1833-1923 (bulk 1863-1899). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131048 Chemist, physicist, and professor of natural history and chemistry at Western Reserve University. From the description of Papers, 1851-1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81988912 Biographical Note 1838, Jan. 29 ...

Hart, Edward, 1854-

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Herrick, Francis Hobart, 1858-1940

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Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895

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American scientist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Utica, New York, to T.F. Dwight, 1865 Apr. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530661 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Haven, Ct., to E.W. Hilgard, 1877 Mar. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870623 ...

Brush, Charles Francis, 1849-1929

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Graduated from the University of Michigan in 1869 and returned to Cleveland as a mining engineer. Worked as an analytical chemist (1870-1873) and then began to experiment with electricity. By 1877 he devoted all his time to the study of electricity and developed the Brush electric dynamo and the Bursh Electric Arc Light. In 1880 he founded the Brush electric company. He was active in philanthropy and endowed the controversial "Brush Foundation" for the study of Eugenics, when, within a week, he ...

Ramsay, William, 1852-1916

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Chemist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Correspondence with Lord Rayleigh about argon, 1887-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155003974 Professor of General Chemistry at University College London, 1887-1912. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers, 1870-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82743733 English scientist. Winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1904. Discoverer of argon, helium, neon, krypton. ...

Böttger, Wilhelm, 1871-

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Jewett, F. F. (Frank Fanning), 1844-1926

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Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932

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Physicist and chemist; Nobel Laureate. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77865733 ...

Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth, 1847-1931

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Physicist, chemist, and geologist. From the description of Frank Wigglesworth Clarke diaries, 1865-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78216515 Cornell University faculty member. From the description of Frank Wigglesworth Clarke autograph book, 1869-1878. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936042 Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847-1931) was a geological chemist. Clarke taught chemistry and physics at Howard University in Washington, D.C., ...

Munroe, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1849-1938

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Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939

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Astronomer, superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From the description of Henry S. Pritchett papers, 1876-1967 (bulk 1900-1939). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061298 Biographical Note 1857, Apr. 16 Born, Fayette, Mo. 1875 A.B.,...

Miller, Dayton Clarence, 1866-1941

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Professor of physics at Case Institute of Technology, involved in theoretical physics and the development of complicated techniques for the quanitatitive measurement of physical phenomena, including the velocity of light in magnetic fields, the expansion of gases, the ether drift, interferometer applications, the photographic registration of sound waves and the quality of musical sounds; and a pioneer in the study of x-rays, radium, and wireless telegraphy. From the description of Pa...

Hempel, Walther, 1851-1916

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Dana, Edward Salisbury, 1849-1935

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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...

Börnstein, R. (Richard), 1852-1913

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