Herbert E. Ives

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Herbert Eugene Ives

Herbert Eugene Ives (born July 21, 1882 in Philadelphia , † November 13, 1953 ) was an American physicist and inventor .

Life

Herbert E. Ives studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University , where he received his doctorate in 1908. Ives made important inventions for the telegraphic transmission of photographs and he was a television pioneer. In 1917 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society and in 1933 to the National Academy of Sciences . He has received honorary degrees from Yale University , Dartmouth College, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1951 he received the Rumford Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . For his services in World War II he received the Medal for Merit .

In 1938 Ives and Stillwell succeeded for the first time in the experimental proof and the first measurement of the time dilation , albeit unintentionally and against his actual intention, because he actually wanted to refute Albert Einstein's theory of relativity ( Ives-Stilwell experiment ). However, Ives remained a critic of the theory of relativity and in later years represented a new Lorentzian theory of ethers , which, however, was classified as unusable by experts.

Herbert Ives' father, Frederic Eugene Ives (1856–1937), was also a scientist and inventor.

Works

  • Ives, HE & Stilwell, GR (1938): An experimental study of the rate of a moving clock . J. Opt. Soc. At the. 28 : 215-226
  • Ives, HE & Stilwell, GR (1941): An experimental study of the rate of a moving clock. II . J. Opt. Soc. At the. 31 , 369-374
  • H. Ives: Derivation of the Lorentz transformations , Phil. Mag. 7, vol. 39, 1945 p. 392

literature

  • Oliver E. Buckley, Karl K. Darrow : Herbert Eugene Ives . A Biographical Memoir. Ed .: National Academy of Sciences (=  Biographical Memoirs of the NAS ). Washington DC 1956, p. 145-189 ( nasonline.org [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Herbert E. Ives. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ives, Herbert E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ives, Herbert Eugene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, USA
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1953