Word: michelson
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Lowell (named after James Russell) is the only U.S. high school to claim two Nobel prizewinners: Physicist Albert Michelson ('68), the first U.S. winner, and Physicist Joseph Erlanger ('90). Lowell's other alumni include such diverse notables as Actress Carol Channing, Paper Tycoon J. D. Zellerbach, Author Irving Stone, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Baseball Player Jerry Coleman, the late Publisher (Washington Post) Eugene Meyer, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, California Governor Pat Brown...
When Surgeon Robin P. Michelson reached the brain to remove the tumor, he hit no gusher, but found the area cool, still and, for all practical purposes, dry. Under these ideal conditions he was able to remove virtually all the tumor within ten minutes, though he probably could have taken four times as long without added risk. The research team removed their tubes and clamps, let the patient's own blood rewarm her brain...
...Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley tried to measure this ether wind. Their idea was to measure the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) against the speed of the earth's motion on its orbit around the sun (18.5 miles per second). They set up their apparatus, an affair of many mirrors, in a lab in a downtown Cleveland building. Once a day the earth's rotation aligned the apparatus with the earth's path around the sun. If there were an ether wind, the light flashing across their lab floor should be slowed...
...difficult concept, which even today few laymen and not all scientists fully comprehend. Furthermore, measuring the speed of light is so difficult that the Michelson-Morley experiment and its successors left a nagging possibility that when better apparatus was developed, it might yet detect some trace of an ether wind...