Ernest Merritt
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Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
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academic
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person → physicist → |
| academicDiscipline |
physics
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| coFounded |
Physical Review
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| coFounder |
Ernest Merritt
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institutionalization of physics research in American universities
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| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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| educatedAt |
Cornell University
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| employer |
Cornell University
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| fieldOfWork |
experimental physics
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physics → |
| genre |
scientific journal editing
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| influenced |
development of physics research in the United States
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| knownFor |
co-founding the journal Physical Review
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contributions to early 20th-century American physics research → |
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English
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| memberOf |
American Physical Society
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| notableFor |
helping establish Physical Review as a leading physics journal
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editorial leadership of Physical Review
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| occupation |
physicist
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university professor → |
| positionHeld |
chair of the physics department at Cornell University
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professor of physics at Cornell University → |
| workLocation |
Ithaca, New York
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Physical Review
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Physical Review
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