Albert Abraham Michelson (surname pronunciation anglicised as "Michael-son") (December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931) was a Prussian-born American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences.
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