Albert Abraham Michelson
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Albert Abraham Michelson (December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was a Polish-American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences.
Michelson, the son of a Polish-Jewish merchant (father) and a Polish mother, was born to a Polish-Jewish family in what is today Strzelno, Poland (then Strelno, Provinz Posen in...
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