Article ID: CBB000470255

Doing Much about Nothing (2004)

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Description This paper looks at the Michelson-Morley experiment as well as others in the history of modern physics to understand better how null results of experiments have been treated.


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Authors & Contributors
Staley, Richard A.
Mueller, Olaf L.
Zancul, Maria Cristina de Senzi
Shumelda, Mark
Noon, David Hoogland
Loettgers, Andrea
Journals
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Physik in Unserer Zeit
Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Fachgruppe Geschichte der Chemie
History of the Human Sciences
History of Psychology
Publishers
Pavia University Press
The MIT Press
Springer
University of Minnesota
Concepts
Physics
Experiments and experimentation
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Research methods
Research design
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
People
Michelson, Albert Abraham
Morley, Edward Williams
Poli, Giuseppe Saverio
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
Skinner, Burrhus Frederic
Quine, Willard Van Orman
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Ohio (U.S.)
Italy
Germany
Brazil
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