Definition of Michelson

1. Noun. United States physicist (born in Germany) who collaborated with Morley in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1852-1931).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Michelson

Michal
Michalis
Micheal
Micheas
Michel Eyquem Montaigne
Michel Levy scale of retardation colours
Michel Montaigne
Michel Ney
Michel de Notredame
Michelangelesque
Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Michele
Michelle
Michelson
Michelson-Morley experiment
Michener
Michiana
Michif
Michigan
Michigan lily
Michigander
Michiganders
Michiganian
Michiganians
Michinomiya Hirohito
Michoacán
Michurin

Literary usage of Michelson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lehrbuch Der Experimental-physik by Adolph Wüllner (1899)
"Die Verbesserung bestand darin, dafs michelson eine Linse von sehr grofser ... Die von michelson in dieser Weise erreichte Verschiebung des Bildes war ..."

2. The Theory of Light by Thomas Preston (1901)
"michelson and Morley.1 315. Experiments of michelson and Morley. ... michelson and Morley.* Their conclusion is that if there be any relative motion between ..."

3. Gravitation Versus Relativity: A Non-technical Explanation of the by Charles Lane Poor, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1922)
"For this reason the repetitions of the michelson-Morley experiment recently made at Cleveland and at Mount Wilson are of especial importance: they indicate ..."

4. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"The experiment of michelson and Mor- ley indicating that the earth drags the adjacent ether along with it, it occurred to Lodge' to investigate directly the ..."

5. Manual of Advanced Optics: By C. Riborg Mann by Charles Riborg Mann (1902)
"To accomplish this it is only necessary to turn the two mirrors into the positions -CD as shown in Fig. 15. This is known as the michelson* interferometer. ..."

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