Herbert E. Ives

Herbert Eugene Ives
Ives circa 1913
Born(1882-07-31)July 31, 1882
DiedNovember 13, 1953(1953-11-13) (aged 71)
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
OccupationEngineer
SpouseMabel Lorenz (m. 1908)
ChildrenBarbara Ives Beyer
Kenneth Ives
Ronald Ives
Parent(s)Frederic Eugene Ives
Mary Olmstead
Engineering career
Projectsfacsimile transmission
videotelephony
television
lenticular 3D photography
AwardsEdward Longstreth Medal (1907, 1915 and 1919)
Frederic Ives Medal (1937)
Medal for Merit (1948)
Signature

Herbert Eugene Ives (July 31, 1882 – November 13, 1953) 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.[1] He is best known for the 1938 Ives–Stilwell experiment, which provided direct confirmation of special relativity's time dilation,[2] although Ives himself did not accept special relativity, and argued instead for an alternative interpretation of the experimental results.[3] Ives has been described as "the most authoritative opponent of relativity in United States between the late 1930s and the early 1950s."[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference obit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Robertson, H. P. (1949). "Postulate versus Observation in the Special Theory of Relativity" (PDF). Reviews of Modern Physics. 21 (3): 378–382. Bibcode:1949RvMP...21..378R. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.21.378.
  3. ^ Halliday and Resnick, "Physics", p 931, 3rd edition, 1978, John Wiley & Sons
  4. ^ R. Lalli, Confirming special relativity in spite of himself: the origin of the Ives-Stilwell experiment, In: R. Pisano, D. Capecchi, A. Lukesova (Eds.), Physics, astronomy and engineering: critical problems in the history of science; International 32nd Congress for the SISFA–Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy, Roma 2012, Italy (p. 298-304). Siauliai, Lithuania: Scientia Socialis Press (2013).