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ERNEST GEORGE MERRITT
ERNEST GEORGE MERRITT
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Tune 5, 194S, in Ithaca, New York, after a short illness. He was born April 2S, IS65, (two weeks after Lincoin's assassination)
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shortly by their colleague, Frederick Beclell. The three ran the journal until it was taken over by the American Physical Society in 1913, Bedell continuing as managing editor for another clecacle.
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G Webster of Clark University to about forty physicists in the country to meet at Columbia University to form an American Physical Society.
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by a cathode ray beam, but it was not clear whether they arose from another mechanism of emission or were part of the original beam merely bouncing off. In a rather neat en c!
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Particles leaving a metal plate illuminates! obliquely by ultraviolet light incident through a quartz Winslow on their vacuum tube impinger!
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In World War I at New London he directed experimental and development work related to submarine detection. After Pearl Harbor he wrote to the Navy to inquire why in protecting the harbor it had not used some of the methods developed earlier.
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He took clelight in making movies on a winter's clay, en c! then showing the hilariously amusing antics of motorists attempting to negotiate one of Ithaca's steep hills after a suciclen heavy snow.
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Following the gift of a liquic! air machine to the Cornell physics department there was to be a public lecture on Tow temperature.
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It is for that en c! for his long useful service to the enterprise that he shouIc!
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5:306. The resistance offered by iron wires to alternating currents.
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32:38. 1912 The silicon rectifier used with short electric waves and the theory of contact rectifiers.
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36:1386. 1938 Edward Leamington Nichols.
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