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...Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley tried to measure this ether wind. Their idea was to measure the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) against the speed of the earth's motion on its orbit around the sun (18.5 miles per second). They set up their apparatus, an affair of many mirrors, in a lab in a downtown Cleveland building. Once a day the earth's rotation aligned the apparatus with the earth's path around the sun. If there were an ether wind, the light flashing across their lab floor should be slowed...
...difficult concept, which even today few laymen and not all scientists fully comprehend. Furthermore, measuring the speed of light is so difficult that the Michelson-Morley experiment and its successors left a nagging possibility that when better apparatus was developed, it might yet detect some trace of an ether wind...
Adams, with Peter A. Berle '58, Gerald M. Kolodny '58, and Carl W. Braun '58 upholding the negative, defeated the Lowell affirmative team of Mark A. Michelson '57, Thomas M. Harrington '58, and Anthony M. Lamport '57. Thomas E. Baker '58, Thomas M. Bergen '57, and Robert B. Hill '57 upheld the affirmative for Dunster in their victory over Daniel J. Johnedis '57, Paul R. Brass '58, and Joel J. Schwartz '59 of Dudley...
...Medical School student named Ann M. Michelson and a mouse named "Funny-foot" may have taken a giant step forward toward the cure for muscular dystrophy. Miss Michelson's research on "Funny-foot's" mutant genes resulted in a $50,000 grant for extensive exploration along the lines of heredity...
...present Miss Michelson is continuing her research with hopes of raising enough of the rodents to complete the work proposed by the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America. This will entail raising about 400 animals a month, a substantial increase over the eight or ten which are born each week...