Herbert Eugene Ives | |
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.jpg) Ives circa 1913 | |
| Born | July 31, 1882 |
| Died | November 13, 1953 (aged 71) |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Spouse | Mabel Lorenz (m. 1908) |
| Children | Barbara Ives Beyer Kenneth Ives Ronald Ives |
| Parent(s) | Frederic Eugene Ives Mary Olmstead |
| Engineering career | |
| Projects | facsimile transmission videotelephony television lenticular 3D photography |
| Awards | Edward Longstreth Medal (1907, 1915 and 1919) Frederic Ives Medal (1937) Medal for Merit (1948) |
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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]
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obitwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 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.
- ^ Halliday and Resnick, "Physics", p 931, 3rd edition, 1978, John Wiley & Sons
- ^ 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).