morley

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any of various towns in England
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American chemist and physicist who with Albert Michelson disproved the existence of ether, the hypothetical medium of electromagnetic waves. Callaghan Morley Edward Michelson Morley experiment Morley of Blackburn John Morley Viscount Morley Thomas
{i} family name; Christopher Morley (1890-1957), U.S. author, Rhodes scholar, editor; Edward Williams Morley (1838-1923) U.S. chemist who researched the relative motion of the Earth; Robert Morley (1908-1992) English thespian
United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923)

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Morley Callaghan
born Sept. 22, 1903, Toronto, Ont., Can. died Aug. 25, 1990, Toronto Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Callaghan received a law degree in 1928 but never practiced. He won acclaim for the short-story collection A Native Argosy (1929). His first novel, Strange Fugitive (1928), describes the destruction of a social misfit, a type that recurs in his fiction. Subsequent novels, including They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935) and The Loved and the Lost (1951, Governor General's Award), emphasize Christian love as an answer to social injustice. That Summer in Paris (1963) describes Callaghan's friendship with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Later works include A Fine and Private Place (1975) and A Time for Judas (1983)
Morley Edward Callaghan
born Sept. 22, 1903, Toronto, Ont., Can. died Aug. 25, 1990, Toronto Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Callaghan received a law degree in 1928 but never practiced. He won acclaim for the short-story collection A Native Argosy (1929). His first novel, Strange Fugitive (1928), describes the destruction of a social misfit, a type that recurs in his fiction. Subsequent novels, including They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935) and The Loved and the Lost (1951, Governor General's Award), emphasize Christian love as an answer to social injustice. That Summer in Paris (1963) describes Callaghan's friendship with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Later works include A Fine and Private Place (1975) and A Time for Judas (1983)
Christopher Morley
{i} (1890-1957) U.S. author and poet, Rhodes scholar
Edward Williams Morley
{i} Edward Morley (1838-1923), U.S. chemist who researched the relative motion of the Earth
John Morley Viscount Morley
born Dec. 24, 1838, Blackburn, Eng. died Sept. 23, 1923, Wimbledon, London English politician and historian. He worked as a journalist in London from 1860, mainly as editor of the liberal Fortnightly Review (1867-82). A supporter of William E. Gladstone, Morley served in the House of Commons (1883-95, 1896-1908). As chief secretary for Ireland (1886, 1892-95), he helped prepare the Irish Home Rule bills. As secretary for India (1905-10), he brought elected Indian representation into the government. He also wrote acclaimed historical works, including biographies of Gladstone, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Oliver Cromwell
John Morley Viscount Morley of Blackburn
born Dec. 24, 1838, Blackburn, Eng. died Sept. 23, 1923, Wimbledon, London English politician and historian. He worked as a journalist in London from 1860, mainly as editor of the liberal Fortnightly Review (1867-82). A supporter of William E. Gladstone, Morley served in the House of Commons (1883-95, 1896-1908). As chief secretary for Ireland (1886, 1892-95), he helped prepare the Irish Home Rule bills. As secretary for India (1905-10), he brought elected Indian representation into the government. He also wrote acclaimed historical works, including biographies of Gladstone, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Oliver Cromwell
Michelson-Morley experiment
Attempt to detect the velocity of the Earth with respect to ether, a hypothetical medium in space formerly proposed to carry light waves. It was first performed in Berlin in 1881 by A.A. Michelson and refined in the U.S. in 1887 by Michelson and Edward W. Morley (1838-1923). The procedure assumed that if the speed of light were constant with respect to the ether, the motion of the Earth could be detected by comparing the speed of light in the direction of the Earth's motion and the speed of light at right angles to the Earth's motion. No difference was found, and the result discredited the ether theory. As a result, Albert Einstein proposed in 1905 that the speed of light is a universal constant
Robert Morley
{i} (1908-1992) English thespian
Thomas Morley
born 1557/58, Norwich, Norfolk, Eng. died October 1602, London English composer, organist, and music theorist. He was educated at Oxford and studied with William Byrd. Though he composed a number of anthems and psalms, he is best known for his secular songs, including those published in the First Booke of Ayres (1600), and for the treatise A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musick (1597). By editing and printing several anthologies of Italian music (often reworked), he was instrumental in bringing the Italian madrigal to England. He also edited The Triumphes of Oriana (published 1603), the most significant collection of English madrigals
michelson-morley experiment
a celebrated experiment conducted by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley; their failure to detect any influence of the earth's motion on the velocity of light was the starting point for Einstein's theory of relativity
morley

    Hyphenation

    Mor·ley

    Turkish pronunciation

    môrli

    Pronunciation

    /ˈmôrlē/ /ˈmɔːrliː/

    Etymology

    [ 'mor-lE ] (biographical name.) From Old English mor (“moor”) + leah (“wood”)
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