Albert Abraham Michelson FFRS HFRSE (December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931) was a German-born 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

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