Herbert E. Ives
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American physicist
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Herbert E. Ives's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of Pennsylvania
Why Is Herbert E. Ives Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Herbert Eugene Ives was a scientist and engineer who headed the development of facsimile and television systems at AT&T in the first half of the twentieth century. He is best known for the 1938 Ives–Stilwell experiment, which provided direct confirmation of special relativity's time dilation, although Ives himself did not accept special relativity, and argued instead for an alternative interpretation of the experimental results. Ives has been described as "the most authoritative opponent of relativity in United States between the late 1930s and the early 1950s."
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