Herbert E. Ives

Herbert Eugene Ives ( born July 21, 1882 in Philadelphia, † November 13, 1953 ) was an American physicist and inventor. Herbert E. Ives studied at the University of Pennsylvania and at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his doctorate in 1908. Ives gave important inventions for the telegraphic transmission of photographs and he was a television pioneer.

In 1938 Ives and Stillwell first time the experimental evidence and the first measurement of time dilation, however unintentionally and contrary to his actual intention, because he wanted the theory of relativity by Albert Einstein actually refute ( Ives - Stilwell experiment). However, Ives remained a critic of the theory of relativity and represented in later years, a new Lorentz ether theory, which, however, was classified by the community as useless.

The father of Herbert Ives, Frederic Eugene Ives (1856-1937), was also a scientist and inventor.

Works

• Ives, HE & Stilwell, GR (1938 ): An experimental study of the rate of a moving clock. J. Opt Soc. Am. 28, 215-226
• Ives, HE & Stilwell, GR (1941 ): An experimental study of the rate of a moving clock. II J. Opt Soc. Am. 31, 369-374
• H. Ives: Derivation of the Lorentz transformations, Phil Mag 7, vol. 39, 1945 pp. 392