. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. andHistory of France, in nineteen volumes. MICHELSON, mikelson, Albert Abra-ham (1852- ), an American physicist, thewinner of the 1907 Nobel prize in was born in Germany, but emigratedearly in life to the United States and Avaseducated at the United States Naval his graduation, he spent several yearsin the navy, then resigned to pursue hisstudies in Europe. Upon his return he be-came professor of j^hysics in the
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. andHistory of France, in nineteen volumes. MICHELSON, mikelson, Albert Abra-ham (1852- ), an American physicist, thewinner of the 1907 Nobel prize in was born in Germany, but emigratedearly in life to the United States and Avaseducated at the United States Naval his graduation, he spent several yearsin the navy, then resigned to pursue hisstudies in Europe. Upon his return he be-came professor of j^hysics in the Case Schoolof Api^lied Sciences, at Cleveland, 1889 to 1892 he was professor ofphysics in Clark University, after which bebecame head of the department of physicsin the University of Chicago. ProfessorMiehelson is know^n at home and abroad forhis research work and discoveries. In 1882he gave new figures for the velocit^y of lightthrough a vacuum. A few years later he in-vented his inferential refractometer, an in-strument with which he would measure thewave lengths of light. He is a member ofnumerous learned socities in America and .ICHIG-AN, mishigan, a northcentral state, lying in the Saint LawrenceRiver basin. It consists of two peninsulas,the larger of which is shaped like the lefthand. The southern boundaiy of the state isat the wrist, the tip of the middle finger is atthe Strait of jNIackinac, with Saginaw Baybetween the thumb and fingers. Such isroughly the form of tlie southern Michigan is on the west and north of it,and Lake Huron, Lake Saint Clair and LakeErie, with their connecting rivers, are northand east. Ohio and Indiana are south. Thenorthern peninsula, the smaller section of thestate, is between Lake Superior and lakes MICHIGAN 2326 MICHIGAN Michigan and Huron, and for nearlj half itslength is north of Wisconsin. The state as a whole is famed in severalrespects, and to its fair reputation both pen-insulas contribute. The nor
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