Science in the second half of the nineteenth century was jolted out of complacency by the failure of physicist Albert A. Michelson and chemist Edward W. Morely to find any evidence of the “luminiferous ether,” the hypothetical medium through which light waves were supposed to travel.
This failure upended aspects of Newtonian physics and ultimately led to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
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American physicist Albert A. Michelson, news.uchicago.edu; American chemist Edward W. Morley, worldofchemicals.com
David Weintraub 