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Albert A. Michelson
Measuring light with precision interferometers.
Michelson–Morley experiment · Stellar interferometry
- Born
- 19 December 1852
- Birthplace
- Strzelno
- Died
- 9 May 1931
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Albert A. Michelson
Albert Michelson was an experimental physicist whose instruments made increasingly precise measurements of light possible.
Early life
Education
Raised in the United States after his family left Prussia, he graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1873.
Career
- 1875
Naval instructor
Returned to Annapolis to teach physics and chemistry.
- 1883
Case School
Became professor of physics in Cleveland.
- 1892
Chicago
Became the university’s first physics department head.
- 1907
Nobel Prize
Received the physics prize for optical instruments and measurements.
Contributions
Michelson–Morley experiment
With Edward Morley, found no expected effect of Earth’s motion through a proposed light-carrying ether.
Stellar interferometry
Applied interference methods to measuring stars.
Beyond work
Family
His sister Miriam Michelson became a novelist.
Sources & photo credit
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