Albert Abraham Michelson
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1907for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 12/19/1852
- place of birth
- Strzelno
- date of death
- 5/9/1931
- place of death
- Pasadena
- Lived
- 78 years
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- educated at
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- United States Naval Academy
- academic degree: undergraduate degree
- end time: 5/31/1873
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- United States Naval Academy
- member of
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- Academy of Sciences of Turin
- start time: 5/5/1922
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 8/16/1906
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1902
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 11/27/1902
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
- American Physical Society
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- French Academy of Sciences
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Academy of Sciences of Turin
- field of work
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- astronomy
- physics
- employer
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- Case Western Reserve University
- Clark University
- University of Chicago
- occupation
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- physicist
- military officer
- university teacher
- doctoral student
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- Robert Andrews Millikan
- Isabelle Stone
- Henry Gale