The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907
Awarded on: 1907-11-12
"for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid"
Affiliations:
- University of Chicago – Chicago, IL, USA
Albert Abraham Michelson
Born: 1852-12-19 in Strelno, Prussia (now Strzelno, Poland)
Gender: male
Field: American physicist (1852–1931)
Biography
Albert Abraham Michelson was an 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. He was the founder and the first head of the physics departments of Case School of Applied Science and the University of Chicago.