Albert Abraham Michelson
1852-1931
American Physicist
Albert Michelson was a renowned physicist whose work in optics inspired, among others, Albert Einstein (1879-1955). He made the first accurate det...
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Albert Abraham Michelson
1852-1931
American physicist best known for inventing the interferometer (1881) and for his 1887 experiments with Edward Morley that failed to detect the motion of Earth relat...
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The American physicist Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931) is important for his determination of the velocity of light and the study of optical interference.Albert Michelson was born on Dec. 19, 1852...
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Born in Strelno, Prussia (now Strzelno, Poland), Michelson and his family moved to the United States in 1854, settling in California during the gold rush. While his father worked as a supplier for min...
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Albert Michelson devoted his life almost exclusively to the study of one subject: light. For his accomplishments in the study of optics, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1907, the first A...
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Albert Abraham Michelson
Albert Abraham Michelson
Albert Abraham Michelson
Albert Michelson