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After some time, Stephan Michelson, administrative head of the Education School section, took the floor delivering a brief analogy between factories and schools. Sectionmen, he explained, have to play roles similar to managers...
...more than half a century, textbooks have hailed an 1887 experiment performed by the American scientists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley as the inspiration for Einstein's 1905 Special Theory of Relativity. The two Americans showed that the speed of light is constant despite the motion of its source, a puzzling result that defied the Newtonian physics of the time, but was later explained by Einstein's equations. Yet was Einstein actually guided toward his epochal achievement by the Michelson-Morley experiment? After combing the Einstein archives at Princeton, Physicist-Historian Gerald Holton concludes that...
Then how did the misconception arise? In part, says Holton, because of Einstein's own generous tributes to Michelson and Morley, whose work-in retrospect-provided the only experimental confirmation of relativity for many years. But most of the blame rests with the scientific community itself. By trying to fit the evolution of one of the most important scientific concepts of the 20th century into a neat logical sequence, Holton says, textbook writers (himself included) have nurtured what he calls the "experimenticist fallacy": the false notion that theory always flows directly from experiment. In the process, he says, they...
...particles in metropolitan areas deposits layers of grime on automobiles, clothing, buildings and windows; it adds about $600 per year in washing, cleaning, repairing and repainting bills to the budget of a family with two or three children in New York City, according to a study made by Irving Michelson, a consultant in environmental health and safety. Because of fly ash and soot from smokestacks, the main façade of Manhattan's New York Hilton was so badly discolored that it had to be replaced last year, only 31 years after the hotel was completed. Ozone, a principal...
...with the George C. Marshall Medal of the Association of the United States Army for "selfless service to the United States" and, among other things, implementation of the Marshall Plan; Polaroid Corp. President Edwin H. Land, 57, named to receive the Case Institute of Technology's $5,000 Michelson Award; Lyndon Johnson, named to receive the first Margaret Sanger Award in World Leadership of the Planned Parenthood Federation for "contributions to world understanding of population planning...