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Michelson Physics.|ˈmaɪkəlsən|
The name of A. A. Michelson (1852–1931), German-born U.S. physicist, used attrib. and in the possessive to designate (a) the Michelson-Morley experiment (see next); (b) the type of interferometer that was used in this experiment (invented earlier by Michelson).
1902Encycl. Brit. XXX. 250/1 Lodge..studied the behavior of a beam of light which was divided into two portions by a semi-transparent mirror as in Michelson's interferometer. 1956E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics iii. 99 The theory of special relativity rests mainly on the Michelson experiment. 1966Michelson interferometer [see Michelson-Morley].
1965M. Garbuny Optical Physics vi. 308 That such a wavetrain moving through space with a finite length has actually a physical significance..can be demonstrated by the Michelson experiment. 1972C. Møller Theory of Relativity (ed. 2) i. 28 Michelson's experiment was only the first of a long series of attempts to determine the motion of the earth relative to the ether. |