Article ID: CBB000850196

Quirino Majorana's Experiments on the Speed of Light and Gravitational Absorption (2007)

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Quirino Majorana (1871--1957) was an outstanding Italian experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena during his long career in Rome,Turin, and Bologna. We focus on his experiments in Turin during 1916--1921 and in Bologna during 1921--1934 to test the validity of Albert Einstein's postulate on the constancy of the speed of light and to detect gravitational absorption. These experiments required extraordinary skill, patience, and dedication, and all of them confirmed Einstein's postulate and Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation to high precision. Had they not done so, Majorana's fame among historians and physicists no doubt would be much greater than it is today.

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Description On his experiments in Turin from 1916 to 1921 and in Bologna from 1921 to 1934.


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Pound, Robert V.
Abiko, Seiya
Afriat, Alexander
Edwards, Matthew R.
Eisenstaedt, Jean
Halpern, Paul
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
HOPOS
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Apeiron
Princeton University Press
Springer
Fontaine Uitgevers
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Physics
Gravitation
Relativity
Relativity, general
Experiments and experimentation
Philosophy of science
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Einstein, Albert
Ehrenfest, Paul
Klein, Oskar Benjamin
Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Broglie, Louis Victor Pierre Raymond de
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19th century
20th century
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