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Physics is not a series of disconnected subjects, including Mechanics, Sound, Light, Heat, and Electricity. It is, on the contrary, a body of well-organized truth, forming one great whole; illustrating, as do few other subjects, what Dickens called "the universal dove-tailedness of things."
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Born:
June 4, 1859
Died:
February 17, 1953
(aged 93)
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Henry Crew was an American physicist and astronomer.
Known for:
The wave theory of light (1900)
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