Miller's Waves: An Informal Scientific Biography

Dayton Miller, American physicist in the early twentieth century, known for research on medical x-rays and musical sounds, sought evidence for the luminiferous ether, joining the worldwide debate about relativity.

William Fickinger is professor emeritus of physics at Case Western Reserve University. Born in New York City, he completed his undergraduate education at Manhattan College and received a Ph.D. in experimental high energy physics at Yale in 1961. He held research positions at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay in France. He taught and did research at CWRU from 1967 until 1999, specializing in data analysis for accelerator-based high-energy physics experiments. In 2006 he published a history of physics research at CWRU, a project which led inevitably to this scientific biography of Dayton C. Miller. Fickinger continues to maintain the CWRU physics archives and instrument collection. He has long been active in the CWRU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors and is a board-member of Cleveland Peace Action.