Morley

American  

[mawr-lee] / ˈmɔr li /

noun

1. Christopher Darlington, 1890–1957, U.S. writer.

2. Edward Williams, 1838–1923, U.S. chemist and physicist.

3. John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, 1838–1923, English statesman, journalist, biographer, and critic.

4. Thomas, 1557–1603?, English composer, especially of madrigals.

5. a male given name.

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Morley ¹ British  

/ ˈmɔːlɪ /

noun

1. an industrial town in N England, in Leeds unitary authority, West Yorkshire. Pop: 54 051 (2001)

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Morley ² British  

/ ˈmɔːlɪ /

noun

1. Edward Williams. 1838–1923, US chemist who collaborated with A. A. Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment

2. John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn. 1838–1923, British Liberal statesman and writer; secretary of state for India (1905–10)

3. Robert. 1908–92, British actor. His many films include Major Barbara (1940), Oscar Wilde (1960), and The Blue Bird (1976)

4. Thomas. ?1557–?1603, English composer and organist, noted for his madrigals and his textbook on music, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597)

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Morley Scientific  

/ môr′lē /

1. American chemist and physicist who with Albert Michelson disproved the existence of ether, the hypothetical medium of electromagnetic waves. Their work served as the starting point for Albert Einstein's development of the theory of relativity.

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Morley was apprehended by Missouri State Highway Patrol "without incident" in Carroll County at 11:34am local time on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

An influential paper by John Morley of Yale Law School shows how Rules 5.4 and 5.6 allow firms to rapidly collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

While there he met J. Todd Morley, who connected him with the Guggenheim family fortune.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

For Michael Morley, director of the Florida State University Election Law Center, there are several possible sources of error when matching datasets.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

An unlucky Canadian geologist named Lawrence Morley came up with the same conclusion at the same time, but couldn’t find anyone to publish his paper.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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