Word: michelson
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...most careful and accurate of these experiments was carried out by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at the Case Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1887. They compared the speed of light in two beams at right angles to each other. As the earth rotates on its axis and orbits the sun, they reasoned, it will move through the ether, and the speed of light in these two beams should diverge. But Michelson and Morley found no daily or yearly differences between the two beams of light. It was as if light always traveled at the same speed relative...
Additionally, four former Harvard students are recipients of this year's award: David F. Elmer '98, a classics concentrator; Andreas J. Liu '96, a philosophy concentrator; Emily D. Michelson '95, a history and literature concentrator; and Edith A. Replogle '96, a history and literature concentrator...
House pre-med tutors emphasized that morestudents are deciding to take time off beforeattending medical school. "In the last year, morestudents have been coming to me for advice abouthow to spend one to two post graduate years beforeapplying to medical school," Michelson said. "I'malso hearing more students taking a year or twoafter college to work before applying...
...Michelson, assistant director of OCS and the health careers adviser, said that a decrease in science concentrators does not necessarily mean that there is a decrease in those who apply to medical school...
...think that people aren't choosing their concentration based on whether they're applying to medical school anymore," Michelson said...