Wasn't another famous negative result the refutation of the "vital principle" which presupposed that substances from living entities were inherently different from those from non-living?
I guess the essential feature of an important negative result is the clearly-observed absence of something predicted by a theory/hypothesis. Zero-intensity reflections might be a good example of commonly-used yet important negative results. JPK On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Bryan Lepore <bryanlep...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would be important to recall the most famous null result : the > Michelson-Morley experiment, published in The American Journal of Science, > explained 18 years later. -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program cel: 773.608.9185 email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu *******************************************
