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    Albert Abraham Michelson FFRS FRSE (surname pronunciation anglicized as "Michael-son", December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was a Prussian-born American physicist...
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    was performed between April and July 1887 by American physicists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University...
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    The Michelson interferometer is a common configuration for optical interferometry and was invented by the 19/20th-century American physicist Albert Abraham...
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    (first awarded in 1941), Stuart Ballantine Medal (1947), and the Albert A. Michelson Medal (1968). Past winners include Henry Ford, Frank Lloyd Wright...
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    University and an astroparticle physicist. Previously, she served as the Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago as well...
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    Science and the Life of Albert Einstein (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. pp. 111–113. ISBN 978-0-19-280672-7. Michelson, Albert A. (1881). "The Relative...
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  • basement of a Western Reserve University dormitory in 1887, and Albert A. Michelson became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in science. Western...
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    equation. It was first measured precisely for the hydrogen atom by Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley in 1887, laying the basis for the theoretical...
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    National Bureau of Standards (currently NIST). In 1996, he received the Albert A. Michelson Medal from The Franklin Institute. Phillips' doctoral thesis concerned...
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    Technology, NIST) Data Gallery: Michelson Speed of Light (Univariate Location Estimation) (download data gathered by Albert A. Michelson) Subluminal (Java applet...
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  • Earth. The aim, as it was first proposed by Albert A. Michelson in 1904 and then executed in 1925 by Michelson and Henry G. Gale, was to find out whether...
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  • recognized with the annual Albert A. Michelson Award, presented by the Navy League of the United States. The award honors "a civilian scientist, technical...
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    The Michelson stellar interferometer is one of the earliest astronomical interferometers built and used. The interferometer was proposed by Albert A. Michelson...
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    others similarly aged and experienced such as Peter Conover Hains and Albert A. Michelson rejoined the military after World War I started. By special act of...
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  • classified people by race) Cornelius Lanczos, mathematical physicist Albert A. Michelson, who measured the speed of light,and disproved the existence of the...
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    first geologic map. He was a longtime assistant to Albert A. Michelson. In 1920, Michelson and Pease were able to use the Michelson stellar interferometer...
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    Eugen Goldstein, Wilhelm Wien, Arthur König, Henry Augustus Rowland, Albert A. Michelson, Wilhelm Wundt, Fernando Sanford and Michael I. Pupin. Leo Koenigsberger...
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  • 2002. The award in its various forms is named for physics professor Albert A. Michelson (Case School of Applied Sciences) and chemistry professor Edward...
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    proton-antiproton scattering.[citation needed] Glauber received the Albert A. Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia (1985), the Max...
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  • (physicist Albert Michelson, physiologist Joseph Erlanger) and a United States Supreme Court justice (Stephen G. Breyer)." Guide to the Albert A. Michelson Papers...
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    physicist Albert A. Michelson for several years around 1887. They set up, executed, and improved their techniques many times in what we call the Michelson–Morley...
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    equipment of legendary physicist Albert A. Michelson. Alvarez also constructed an apparatus of Geiger counter tubes arranged as a cosmic ray telescope, and under...
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    a Nobel Prize of any kind, being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in negotiating peace for the Russo-Japanese War.Albert Michelson was...
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    water-tube, long baseline tiltmeter. In 1919, the renowned physicist, Albert A. Michelson, noted that the most favorable arrangement to obtain high sensitivity...
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    Prize in Literature 1905". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2019-01-07. "Albert A. Michelson: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907". NobelPrize.org. Archived from...
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  • obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others. It culminated in the theory of special relativity proposed by Albert Einstein...
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    the National Academy of Sciences in 1983. In 1986, he received the Albert A. Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute. In the same year Hänsch returned...
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  • slit becoming too dim to accurately measure. Between 1877 and 1931, Albert A. Michelson made multiple measurements of the speed of light. His 1877–79 measurements...
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    Fellow of the American Physical Society 1992 The Humboldt Prize 1993 Albert A. Michelson Medal by the Franklin Institute 2007 Charles Hard Townes Award by...
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  • Albert Richard "Whitey" Michelsen (December 16, 1893 – July 7, 1964) was an American long-distance runner who is recognized as having set a world's best...
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