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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Franklin Institute (redirect from Albert A. Michelson Medal)
(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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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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others similarly aged and experienced such as Peter Conover Hains and Albert A. Michelson rejoined the military after American entry into World War I in 1917...
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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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travel. It was conducted in the basement of a Western Reserve University dormitory in 1887, and Albert A. Michelson became the first American to win the Nobel...
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Theory of relativity (category Albert Einstein)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Speed of light (redirect from Speed of light in a vacuum)
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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the provost of Columbia University. Previously, she served as the Albert A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago as well...
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as the Courant–Snyder parameters. "Franklin Laureate Database - Albert A. Michelson Medal Laureates". Franklin Institute. Archived from the original...
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danger that scientific inventions could pose to humanity. He joined with Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Joseph Rotblat, and other eminent scientists...
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Interferometry (section Michelson-Morley)
interferometer (not requiring a splitting aperture as the Arago interferometer did) in 1856. In 1881, the American physicist Albert A. Michelson, while visiting Hermann...
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Mountains of Alaska, USA. The mountain was named around 1957 for Albert Abraham Michelson by members of the Chugach Mountains Expedition sponsored by the...
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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...
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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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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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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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telescope was equipped with a special attachment, a 6-meter optical astronomical interferometer developed by Albert A. Michelson, much larger than the one...
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known attempt to detect the existence of the aether was conducted by Albert A. Michelson in an experiment of 1881, later repeated with Edward W. Morley in...
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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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