CWRU Faculty & Staff Authors

Dayton Miller, American physicist in the early twentieth century, known for research on medical x-rays and musical sounds, sought evidence for the luminiferous ether, joining the worldwide debate about relativity.

The symposium was held to celebrate a century of modern physics initiated in 1887 by the Michelson-Morley experiment which demonstrated that the earth's motion had no effect on the behavior of light. Fifteen papers dwell relatively little on the past, addressing current developments in such areas as: physics at higher energies and smaller distances