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Robert S. Shankland was a historian of physics. R.S. Shankland's final report on the Albert Michelson's Irvine Ranch experiments was published in 1933. Shankland in the British Journal Nature
give the historical background of how Einstein formulates the first two principles, in
1905, of the Special Theory of Relativity from the Michelson-Morley experiment. Shankland believed that the accepted direct explanation for the
Michelson-Morley experiment is provided by the special theory of relativity given by Albert Einstein in 1905.
Shankland recorded that Michelson's Santa Ana trip was to look at the science
of the aether. Physicists consider the results of the tests on Mount Wilson more accurate. Computer analysis after Miller's death on the available data
has proven that the shifts were statistically significant. The interferometry apparatus
work continued from 1886 until July 1887 (including the buildings on the Case and Western Reserve campuses).
In 1955, R. S. Shankland, S. W. McCuskey, F. C. Leone, and G. Kuerti perform a debated
analysis of Dayton Miller's positive results. Shankland, who led the
study, reports statistical fluctuations in the readings and systematic temperature disturbances (both allegations have been later
disproven). Lately, there has been more of Miller's papers from the possession of R. S. Shankland to surface and they are
awaiting future analysis.
External links and references
Publications
- Shankland, Robert, "Michelson, A. A., 1852-1931", Nature, vol. 171, 17 Jan., 1953.
- Shankland, Robert, et al, “New Analysis of the Interferometer Observations of Dayton C Miller”, Reviews of Modern
Physics, 27, 167-178 (1955).
- Shankland, Robert, "Atomic and Nuclear Physics", MacMillan Co., 1960.
- Shankland, Robert, "Conversations with Albert Einstein," Am. J. Phys. 31 47-57. 1963
- Shankland, Robert, American Journal of Physics 1964
- Shankland, Robert, S.W. McCuskey, F.C. Leone and G. Kuerti, New Analysis of the Interferometric Observations of Dayton C.
Miller, Rev. Mod. Phys. 27
- Shankland, Robert, "Michelson-Morley Experiment," 32 (1), 16-35. 1964.
- R.S. Shankland, Am. J. Phys., 32, 16. 1964.
- Shankland, Robert, "An Apparent Failure of the Photon Theory of Scattering", Physical Review, Vol.49, Jan 1936
- Shankland, Robert, Helmut J. Ormestad, and Arthur H. Benade, "Reverberation Time Characteristics of Severance Hall," Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America 32, no. 3 (March 1960)
- Shankland, Robert, and Edward A. Flynn, "Acoustics of Severance Hall," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 31, no. 7
(July 1959)
- Shankland, Robert, Scientific papers of Arthur Holly Compton; x-rays and other studies, University of Chicago Press.
- Shankland, Robert, "Michelson's Role in the Development of Relativity", Applied Optics, 12(10):2280-2287, October 1973.
- Shankland, Robert, (ED.): Scientific papers of Arthur Holly Compton; x-rays and other studies, University of Chicago
Press.
- Shankland, Robert, "Michelson's Role in the Development of Relativity", Applied Optics, 12(10):2280-2287, October 1973.
- Shankland, Robert, Am. J. Phys., 41, 895(1973).
- Scientific Papers, ed. and with an introd. by R. S. Shankland (1973)
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