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."
Hamerla carefully and usefully directs our attention away from more familiar sites of scientific activity during...
An American Scientist on the Research Frontier is the first scholarly study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Wi...
