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    Albert Abraham Michelson (surname pronunciation anglicized as Michael-son; December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was an American physicist known for his work...
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    The Michelson interferometer is a common configuration for optical interferometry and was invented by the American physicist Albert Abraham Michelson in...
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  • Mobile post-war. Scrapped at Panama City, Florida in November 1972. Albert Abraham Michelson was built by Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation. Her keel was laid...
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    Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields on Spectral Lines" 1921 Albert Abraham Michelson: "Some Recent Applications of Interference Methods" 1920 Charles...
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  • name Michelson include: Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931), American physicist, first U.S. citizen to win a Nobel Prize in science Frida Michelson (1906–1982)...
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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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    {\displaystyle D<f} : N A ≈ a / 2 {\displaystyle \mathrm {NA} \approx a/2} Albert Abraham Michelson (1995). Studies in Optics. Courier Dover. p. 32. ISBN 0-486-68700-7...
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    measure the rotation of the Earth; a similar suggestion was made by Albert Abraham Michelson in 1904. They hoped that with such an interferometer, it would...
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  • 2013. "Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852 in Strelno, Poland (then a part of Prussia) to Samuel and Rosalie Przlubska Michelson. Two...
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    Wilhelm Röntgen and Philipp Lenard 1901 Guglielmo Marconi 1903 Albert Abraham Michelson 1904 Marie Curie and Pierre Curie 1905 Henri Poincaré 1906 James...
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  • by E. de K. Leffingwell, between 1906 and 1914, for Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, an American scientist. Nolan, M.; DesLauriers, K. (23 June 2016)...
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  • in aether may be optically detectable.[citation needed] 1881 – Albert Abraham Michelson publishes his first interferometer experiments, using the device...
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  • Gerardus Mercator Mercerised cotton – John Mercer Michelson interferometer – Albert Abraham Michelson Mills bomb – William Mills Minié ball, Minié rifle...
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    16, 2012. Millikan, Robert A. (1938). "Biographical Memoir of Albert Abraham Michelson, 1852–1931" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy...
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    Baeyer (Chemistry) 1905 Robert Koch (Physiology or Medicine) 1907 Albert Abraham Michelson (Physics) 1907 Eduard Buchner (Chemistry) 1908 Paul Ehrlich (Physiology...
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  • (1845–1923) Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918) Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931) Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926) J. J. Thomson (1856–1940)...
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  • confirmed sighting of a Huia in New Zealand. Nobel Prizes Physics – Albert Abraham Michelson Chemistry – Eduard Buchner Medicine – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran...
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    Baeyer (Chemistry) 1905 Robert Koch (Physiology or Medicine) 1907 Albert Abraham Michelson (Physics) 1907 Eduard Buchner (Chemistry) 1908 Rudolf Eucken (Literature)...
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  • number MCV 114, a type VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship, she was named after Albert Abraham Michelson. The ship was reactivated from the James River Maritime Administration...
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    of a wave of light identified by a line in the solar spectrum. Albert Abraham Michelson soon took up the idea and improved it. The first interferometric...
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  • simultaneity. Many physicists (like Hendrik Lorentz, Oliver Lodge, Albert Abraham Michelson, Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Harry Bateman, Ebenezer Cunningham, Charles...
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  • G. K. Menon – India (1928–2016) David Merritt – United States Albert Abraham Michelson – United States (1852–1931) Nobel laureate Arthur Alan Middleton...
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  • Infeld, physicist Hilary Koprowski, immunologist Abraham Lempel, computer scientist Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931), physicist; Nobel Prize winner (1907)...
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  • – George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866) 1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b...
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    congressional district, represented by Republican Tom McClintock. Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to receive the Nobel in the sciences, grew...
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    For his work towards the understanding of radiant energy 1888 Albert Abraham Michelson Cleveland, Ohio Measured the velocity of light, and contribution...
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  • Theory of relativity (category Albert Einstein)
    Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. pp. 111–113. ISBN 978-0-19-280672-7. Michelson, Albert A. (1881). "The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous...
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  • his work as the pioneer of wireless telegraphy' 1920: Professor Albert Abraham Michelson 'whose optical inventions have rendered possible the reproduction...
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    to systematically produce circularly polarized light. In 1911, Albert Abraham Michelson discovered that light reflected from the golden scarab beetle Chrysina...
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    experimentally link the metre to the wave length of a spectral line. Albert Abraham Michelson soon took up the idea and improved it. In 1987 the International...
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