See Also: Forrester, Jay Wright(encyclopedia)
Wright, Wilbur; and Wright, Orville(encyclopedia)
Michelson(dictionary)
Michelson-Morley(dictionary)
Michelson-Morley experiment(encyclopedia)
Michelson, A(lbert) A(braham)(encyclopedia)
wright(dictionary)
Wright(medicine)
Wright, Sewall(encyclopedia)
North Wright Air(tourism)

Michelson-Morley (iou) and Forrester, Jay Wright (sh)


Michelson-Morley (iou)



Michelson-Morley noun. E20.
[from MICHELSON + E. W. Morley (1838-1923), US chemist and physicist.]
Physics. Used attrib. to designate an experiment performed in 1887 in which a beam of light was divided and made to Travel over two paths, parallel and perpendicular to the earth's motion, before being recombined, the behaviour of the resulting interference fringes showing that the speed of light was the same in both directions, contrary to the notion that the earth moves through an ether.

Forrester, Jay Wright (sh)




born July 14, 1918, Anselmo, Neb., U.S.

U.S. electrical engineer and Management expert.

He taught and conducted research at MIT, where in 1945 he founded the Digital Computer Laboratory. There he invented the magnetic core random-access memory (RAM) used in digital Computers for information storage. At MIT's Sloan School of Management (from 1956), he applied computer simulation to real-world Relationships, such as the flow of materials in a factory, by feeding a series of interconnected equations to a computer.