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	Albert Abraham Michelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Albert Abraham Michelson, (pronunciation anglicized 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.
		Michelson died with only 36 of the 233 measurement series completed and the experiment was subsequently beset by geological instability and condensation problems before the result of 299,774±11 km/s, consistent with the prevailing electro-optic values, was published posthumously in 1935.
		Michelson continued to "refine" his method and in 1883 published a measurement of 299,853±60 km/s, rather closer to that of his mentor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Michelson (1174 words)

	AllRefer.com - Albert Abraham Michelson (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Albert Abraham Michelson[mI´kulsun] Pronunciation Key, 1852–1931, American physicist, b.
		Michelson was the first to measure the diameter of a distant star.
		That led to the refutation of the ether hypothesis and contributed to the development of Einstein's theory of relativity.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Michelso.html (359 words)

	Michelson: Career and Influence
		Albert A. Michelson is renowned for his experiments and precise determinations of the velocity of light, ether drift, length of the standard meter, spectral lines, diameters of stars, and rigidity of the earth.
		Michelson was one of the first occupants of Ryerson Physical Laboratory in 1892, when he began working at he University of Chicago as a professor of Physics and the first Head of the Department.
		Michelson accomplished his research and inventions in the course of his teaching career as a professor of physics at various institutions of higher education.
	www.nadn.navy.mil /LibExhibits/Michelson/Michelson_career.html (1079 words)

	ALBERT ABRAHAM MICHELSON
		Albert Michelson revolutionized science by measuring the speed of light with his interferometer and proving that there was, in fact no such thing as Ether.
		Figure 1:The Michelson interferometer consists of a half-transparent mirror that divides a light beam into two equal parts (A and B), one of which is transmitted to a fixed mirror and the other of which is reflected to a movable mirror.
		With this knowledge Michelson goal was to use the sensitivity of his interferometer “to measure the Earth’s velocity against ether….
	www.u.arizona.edu /~brienna/MICHELSONEDIT_h.html (962 words)

	Expert About mi:Michelson
		Although Albert Michelson was born in a Polish village to a Jewish father and a gentile mother, he became both a symbol and a star of American science as it stood in his time.
		Michelson was a young physics instructor at Annapolis in 1877 when his department head urged him to open his lecture demonstrations with the French physicist Foucault's apparatus for measuring the speed of light.
		Michelson graduated from the U. Unlike most Americans in the frenzied materialism of the Gilded Age, Michelson was attracted to science and found his métier in the sort of work most congenial to American scientists of his day: instrumentation and measurement.
	expertsite.biz /dir/mi/Michelson.htm (1306 words)

	Albert Abraham Michelson 1852-1931
		Albert A. Michelson's background, which seems odd to modern eyes, was not surprising in his own times.
		Michelson later acknowledged the importance of Einstein's work, but to the end of his life he could never believe that light was not a vibration in some sort of ghostly ether.
		This experiment of Michelson and Morley was quickly recognized as the most striking and significant of several different kinds of attempts to measure the ether, which together prepared the ground of doubts and opinions among European physicists from which Einstein's theory of relativity sprang.
	www.aip.org /history/gap/Michelson/Michelson.html (763 words)

	Albert A. Michelson - Biography
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born in Strelno, Prussia, on December 19, 1852.
		Albert A. Michelson died on May 9, 1931.
		On his return to civilian life, Michelson became more interested in astronomy and in 1920, using light interference and a highly developed version of his earlier instrument, he measured the diameter of the star Betelgeuse: this was the first determination of the size of a star that could be regarded as accurate.
	nobelprize.org /physics/laureates/1907/michelson-bio.html (626 words)

	Science in Poland - Albert Michelson
		Albert Michelson advocated using some particular wavelength of light as a standard of distance (a suggestion generally accepted in 1960) and, in 1893, measured the standard metre in terms of the red light emitted by heated cadmium.
		Albert A. Michelson was the first Nobel laureate of the University of Chicago for his measurements of the speed of light.
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born in Strzelno (Poland) on December 19, 1852.
	www.staff.amu.edu.pl /~zbzw/ph/sci/aam.htm (2093 words)

	A.A. Michelson
		Michelson's success was largely because of his expertise in the design and construction of his instruments, and an innate sense of curiosity.
		Michelson's measurement of the speed of light is the most fascinating, exciting aspect of his work I've ever read about.
		Michelson's most important and well known works was on the Interferometer, The Michelson-Morley Experiment and the Speed of Light.
	home.att.net /~dblawren/Michelson.html (966 words)

	Michelson, Albert Abraham
		Michelson developed his interferometer into a precision instrument for measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies and in 1920 announced the size of the giant star Betelgeuse, the first star to be measured.
		Michelson was born in Strelno (now Strzelno, Poland); his family emigrated to the USA and Michelson attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis.
		Michelson was the first American to be awarded a Nobel prize, in 1907.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/biographies/mainbiographies/m/michelson/1.html (243 words)

	Albert Michelson
		In 1878, Albert Michelson now a Ph.D., began to work on confirming the existence of the mysterious "aether." It was thought for several decades that the Earth floated in a fluid called ether as it went through its orbit.
		Albert Michelson’s failure in locating aether successfully led the scientific community to where it is today.
		Albert Michelson helped to lay the groundwork for several future scientists.
	www.usd.edu /phys/courses/phys300/gallery/clark/mich.html (709 words)

	NSLA - Historical Myth a Month - Shedding Light on Nevada's First Nobel Laureate
		Albert Michelson taught at a number of different universities, principally at the University of Chicago, before his death in 1931.
		Michelson was born in Strelno, a small Prussian village on December 19, 1852.
		Michelson graduated from the Naval Academy on May 31, 1873, ninth in a class of twenty-nine.
	dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/nsla/archives/myth/myth59.htm (597 words)

	724216d719ab40ec843f1cefcd572a1e.doc
		Albert Einstein @ No. Albert Michelson and Edward Williams Morley collaborated on a series of experiments that eventually led to the exact determination of the speed of light.
		Albert Michelson determined the exact speed of light and won the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physics for his efforts.
		Albert Einstein came up with the answer in his famous second postulate in theory of relativity: that the speed of light (in vacuum) is always constant and absolute, regardless of its source's motion and observer's movement.
	www.ccac.edu /files/Other_Files/724216d719ab40ec843f1cefcd572a1e.doc (2213 words)

	Albert Michelson
		Albert Michelson was born in 1852 in Strelno, Prussia.
		A physicist, the results of his experiment that accurately determined the speed of light underpinned Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
		Regarded as a key finding in scientific history, the discovery was made on an instrument he invented and is used today to measure the wavelengths of spectrums.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Michelson.html (69 words)

	Case Western Reserve University
		In 1879, physicist Albert A. Michelson measured the speed of light at 186,350 miles per second (plus or minus about 30 miles per second).
		Michelson and chemist Edward W. Morley of Western Reserve University, who was famous for his ability to construct experimental instruments, decided to determine the extent to which the directional flow of this" aether" would affect the speed of light traveling through it.
		Michelson and Morley themselves were never quite convinced of the non-existence of the aether, however.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/isus/A/morley.htm (338 words)

	Albert Michelson Elementary
		Albert Michelson School is one of three school in the Vallecito Union School District and serves Murphys, California and the surrounding areas.
		Michelson Elementary School was honored as a California Distinguished School in 1993.
		Michelson is a school that sets goals and works towards them in a harmonious fashion.
	www.vsd.k12.ca.us /michelson/michelson.htm (212 words)

	America’s first Nobel prize in science:
		The prize was awarded to Clark’s Professor Albert A. Michelson for his work, mostly done in a three-year period at the newly founded University.
		Michelson was the first Professor of Physics at Clark, having moved from the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio [today, Case-Western Reserve University] in September 1889.
		Michelson’s idea was to measure the length of the meter – the international standard of length – by counting the number of waves of light in this distance.
	physics.clarku.edu /history/michelson-clark.html (502 words)

	Brian's Education Blog • Albert Michelson persuades President Grant to fix him up with a scientific education — and makes good use of it
		It occurred to Michelson that for half the year the Earth is travelling towards the Sun and for half the year it is moving away from it, and he reasoned that if you took careful enough measurements at opposite seasons, and compared light's travel time between the two, you would have your answer.
		Michelson talked Alexander Graham Bell, newly enriched inventor of the telephone, into providing the funds to build an ingenious and sensitive instrument of Michelson's own devising called an interferometer, which could measure the velocity of light with great precision.
		It was there that Michelson learned his physics.
	www.brianmicklethwait.com /education/archives/001348.htm (731 words)

	The Speed of Light
		Albert Michelson was born in 1852 in Strzelno, Poland.
		Albert's fourth birthday was celebrated in Murphy's Camp, Calaveras County, about fifty miles south east of Sacramento, a place where five million dollars worth of gold dust was taken from one four acre lot.
		On returning to Annapolis from the cruise, Michelson was commissioned Ensign, and in 1875 became an instructor in physics and chemistry at the Naval Academy, under Lieutenant Commander William Sampson.
	galileo.phys.virginia.edu /classes/109N/lectures/spedlite.html (2469 words)

	Experiment of Albert Michelson
		In 1881 Albert Michelson designed a device, by which means he intended to detect the motion of the Earth relative to a filling space medium - to the ETHER.
		Michelson interferometer and a draft for calculation of light velocity for an arbitrary direction.
		Many scientists considered the question, why the Michelson interferometer did not work, but a satisfactory answer still was not found.
	www.keelynet.com /spider/b-108e.htm (242 words)

	The non-bloggish blog: September 2004
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born in Strzelno (Poland) on December 19, 1852, son of Samuel Michelson and Rozalia, daughter of Abraham Przylubski from Inowroclaw.
		Albert Cornelius Antoine was born in New York in January, 1925 and has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Ohio State University.
		Albert Y. Leung is a pharmacognosist with a B.S. in Pharmacy from the National Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Pharmacognosy from the University of Michigan.
	nonblog.typepad.com /the_nonbloggish_blog/2004/09 (1698 words)

	A Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities 8
		Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931) was a German-born U.S. physicist who established the speed of light as a fundamental constant.
		Albert Einstein (1879-1955), one of the great geniuses of physics, grew up in Munich where his father and his uncle had a small electrical plant and engineering works.
		In 1878 Michelson began work on the passion of his life, the measurement of the speed of light.
	www.ee.umd.edu /~taylor/frame8.htm (439 words)

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		Then in 1905, Albert Einstein proposed a radical new theory; a theory that would overthrow all the work Newton and Galileo had done on relativity: the Theory of Special Relativity in which the Michelson and Morley ether experiment greatly contributed.
		Michelson and Morley built a "Michelson interferometer," which consisted of a light source, a half-silvered glass plate, two mirrors, and a telescope.
		With this device, Michelson and Morley measured the speed of light in different directions.
	www.engin.swarthmore.edu /~rkuker1/michel.htm (243 words)

	Einstein Exhibit -- E=mc2
		One of the most striking, in retrospect, was done in Cleveland, Ohio, by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in 1887.
		Michelson and Morley expected to see their light beams shifted by the swift motion of the earth in space.
		Their apparatus, shown above, was a massive stone block with mirrors and crisscrossing light beams, giving an accurate measurement of any change in the velocity of light.
	www.aip.org /history/einstein/emc1.htm (373 words)

	Re: all that was left was to find the 6th decimal place
		Albert Michelson's most famous contribution to physics was in the Michelson-Morley experiment.
		The quote from Albert Michelson was from his address at the dedication ceremony for the Ryerson Physical Laboratory at the University of Chicago in 1894:
		Michelson's experiments generally involved incredible detailed measurements of the speed of light, to several decimal places - and his quote reflects his view that future developments in science would require measurements of this level of exactness or more.
	www.madsci.org /posts/archives/dec98/912518006.Sh.r.html (393 words)

	Albert Abraham Michelson Biography / Biography of Albert Abraham Michelson Main Biography
		Albert Michelson was born on Dec. 19, 1852, in German Poland.
		The American physicist Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931) is important for his determination of the velocity of light and the study of optical interference.
		Michelson graduated from the Naval Academy in 1873.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-albert-abraham-michelson (240 words)

	michelson.xml
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852 in Strelno, Poland (then a part of Prussia) to Samuel and Rosalie Przlubska Michelson.
		Michelson in the Navy: The Navy in Michelson, by Dorothy Michelson Livingston, 1969, pamphlet
		Michelson resigned from the Navy and took an appointment as Professor of Physics in the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio in 1883.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /ead/rlg/michelson.xml (1481 words)

	Departments
		Albert Michelson - who established the speed of light as a fundamental constant and won the Nobel prize for physics in 1907 (making him the first American Nobel Laureate in science) - was Case's first physics professor.
		The historic letter Albert Einstein wrote in 1952 to Robert Shankland, outlining the origins of his special theory of relativity, including how it related to the Michelson-Morley experiment conducted at Case School of Applied Science in 1887, was among three letters auctioned on May 29 and sold for a total of $33,000.
		The two used a sensitive optical device invented by Michelson, the interferometer, to measure the motion of the Earth through the postulated "ether" of earlier physics.
	www.cwru.edu /pubs/cwrumag/fall1998/departments/homepages/stories/ethereal.html (663 words)

	Planet Quest: Missions - Space Interferometry Mission
		Interferometry was first used by Albert Michelson in the second half of the last century to measure the velocity at which light itself travels through space.
		Michelson became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907.
		Michelson was also the first to apply interferometry to astronomy.
	planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov /SIM/archive20030630/sim_interferometry.html (318 words)

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