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Edward W. Morley

1838 - 1923

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Edward Williams Morley (January 29, 1838 – February 24, 1923) was an American scientist known for his precise and accurate measurement of the atomic weight of oxygen, and for the Michelson–Morley experiment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward W. Morley is the 120th most popular chemist (up from 262nd in 2019), the 621st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,633rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Edward W. Morley ranks 120 out of 602. Before him are Avram Hershko, Claude Louis Berthollet, Gilbert N. Lewis, Michael Levitt, Lars Onsager, and Carl Ferdinand Cori. After him are William Crookes, George Porter, Richard Kuhn, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, S. P. L. Sørensen, and George Andrew Olah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Edward W. Morley ranks 9. Before him are Liliʻuokalani, Ernst Mach, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Max Bruch, Tobias Asser, and Jan Matejko. After him are Franz Brentano, Luís I of Portugal, Émile Loubet, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Ernest Solvay, and Prince Philippe, Count of Paris. Among people deceased in 1923, Edward W. Morley ranks 13. Before him are Jaroslav Hašek, Constantine I of Greece, John Venn, Warren G. Harding, Pancho Villa, and Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover. After him are Joaquín Sorolla, Édouard Stephan, Julius Martov, Dietrich Eckart, Edward Emerson Barnard, and Damdin Sükhbaatar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward W. Morley ranks 621 out of 20,380. Before him are Warren Beatty (1937), Michael Porter (1947), John Kerry (1943), Jerry Lewis (1926), Leon Cooper (1930), and A. L. Kroeber (1876). After him are Mia Farrow (1945), Ernest Borgnine (1917), George Foreman (1949), Don King (1931), Steven Tyler (1948), and Paul Walker (1973).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Edward W. Morley ranks 23. Before him are William Howard Stein (1911), Stanford Moore (1913), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Irving Langmuir (1881), Melvin Calvin (1911), and Gilbert N. Lewis (1875). After him are William Lipscomb (1919), Paul Berg (1926), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), William E. Moerner (1953), Harold Urey (1893), and Robert Burns Woodward (1917).

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