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

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Physical Review
coFounder
Physical Review
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