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Albert Abraham Michelson (surname pronunciation anglicized as Michael-son; December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) 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 ...
Shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics [bw] with J.H.D.Jensen and M.Goeppert-Mayer [329] Willard Libby: December 17, 1908 Grand Valley, United States September 8, 1980 Los Angeles, United States 1953, 1956, 1957, 1960 Won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [330] Edwin Hubble: November 20, 1889 Marshfield, Missouri, United States September 28, 1953
Albert Abraham Michelson: 1868 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907. First American Nobel laureate in a scientific field. [1] [2] [3] Charles Lee Tilden: 1874 Attorney & businessman, namesake of Tilden Regional Park in the East Bay. [1] Stephen Mather: 1883 First Director of the National Park Service. [4] William Renwick Smedberg Jr. 1888 U.S. Army ...
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind, being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in negotiating peace for the Russo-Japanese War. [4] Albert Michelson was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any of the sciences, and Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel ...
Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931), American physicist, first U.S. citizen to win a Nobel Prize in science Frida Michelson (1906–1982), Latvian jew, Holocaust survivor, writer Gary K. Michelson (born 1949), American orthopedic spinal surgeon and inventor
1931 - Death of Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) 1950 - Death of Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883; May 10. 1482 - Death of Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
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Robert Hare, first recipient of the prize in 1839 Samuel Pierpont Langley, 1886 recipient Thomas Alva Edison, 1895 recipient Ernest Fox Nichols, 1904 recipient James M. Crafts, 1911 recipient Enrico Fermi, 1953 recipient Hans Bethe,1963 recipient 1971 Rumford Prize won by the Canadian Group Bruno Rossi, 1976 recipient Chen Ning Yang, 1980 recipient John C. Mather, 1996 recipient Sam Nunn, 2008 ...