Albert Abraham Michelson
(1852-1931)
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Albert Abraham Michelson FFRS HFRSE (December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was an American physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science. He was the founder and the first head of the physics department of the University of Chicago.
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29 December 1852 Strzelno, Poland
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9 May 1931 (aged 78) Pasadena, California
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