Dayton C. Miller
Dayton Clarence Miller (March 13, 1866 - February 22, 1941 ) was an American physicist . In 1914 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1919 to the American Philosophical Society and in 1921 to the National Academy of Sciences .
Life
Dayton C. Miller received his PhD in astronomy from Princeton University . From 1890 he worked at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland , Ohio , as a teacher in mathematics , physics and astronomy. He befriended the much older Edward W. Morley .
With him he continued from 1900 the ether drift experiments that Morley had started together with Albert A. Michelson in Cleveland in 1887. In 1904 they also found a zero result with the same interferometer . In the following years Miller made more than 200,000 measurements on ether drift experiments, some of which came to small but non-zero results, Miller wrote in publications from 1926 onwards.
However, his results could not be reproduced in other experiments, and in addition, his measurement methods were criticized by Robert S. Shankland and others. See also criticism of the theory of relativity # Experimental "refutations" .
music
Miller was engaged not only scientifically, but also as a hobby with music . He played the flute at an advanced level and owned a collection of more than 1,650 flutes. This collection, which also u. a. Containing extensive literature and iconographic representations related to the flute, is now housed in the Washington Library of Congress .
In 1908 he also invented a kind of forerunner of today's oscilloscope , the so-called phonodeics .
Web links
- William J. Maynard, 1971: Dayton C. Miller: His Life, Work, and Contributions as a Scientist and Organologist .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miller, Dayton C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miller, Dayton Clarence |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1866 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1941 |