Edward Morley

Edward Williams Morley was an American scientist famous for his pathbreaking measurements of the atomic weight of oxygen, and for the MichelsonMorley experiment.

Morley was born in Newark, New Jersey to Anna Clarissa Treat and the Reverend Sardis Brewster Morley. Both parents were of early colonial ancestry and of purely British origin. Morley grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut. During his childhood, he suffered much from ill health and was therefore educated by his father at home until the age of nineteen.

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