Michelson,Albert Abraham

Michelson,Albert Abraham
Mi·chel·son (mīʹkəl-sən), Albert Abraham. 1852-1931.
German-born American physicist who with Edward Morley disproved the existence of ether, the hypothetical medium of electromagnetic waves. He won a 1907 Nobel Prize in physics.

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