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	Albert Abraham Michelson
		Albert Abraham Michelson (December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931), an American physicist known for his work on the determination of the speed of light.
		Early on, Michelson was fascinated with the sciences and the problem of measuring the speed of light, in particular.
		After serving as professor at Clark University[?] at Worcester, Massachusetts from 1889, in 1892 Michelson was appointed professor and the first head of the department of physics at the newly organized University of Chicago.
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	Albert Abraham Michelson
		In 1892 Michelson, after serving as professor of physics at Clark University at Worcester, Mass., from 1889, was appointed professor and the first head of the department of physics at the newly organized University of Chicago, a position he held until his retirement in 1929.
		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.
		Michelson died before the results of his final tests could be evaluated, but in 1933 the final figure was announced as 299,774 km/sec, a value less than 2 km/sec higher than the value accepted in the 1970s.
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	MSC -- Albert Michelson
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852, in Strelno, Prussia (today Strzelno, Poland).
		As a student Michelson was fascinated with the sciences in general, and the problem of measuring the speed of light in particular.
		Michelson's stellar interferometer went on to measure the measure the diameter of several other bright stars, and to resolve several close binary stars.
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	Albert Abraham Michelson
		Michelson was born in Strelno[?], Prussia (now Strzelno[?], Poland).
		In 1907, Michelson became the first American to receive a Nobel prize in physics.
		Michelson died on May 9th, 1931 in Pasadena, California.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Albert Abraham Michelson
		Albert Abraham Michelson (surname pronunciation anglicised as "Michael-son") (December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was a Polish-born German-American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment.
		Michelson, the son of a Jewish merchant, was born in, what is today Strzelno, Poland (then Strelno, Provinz Posen in the Prussian-occupied region of partitioned Poland).
		In 1889 Michelson became a professor at Clark University at Worcester, Massachusetts and in 1892 was appointed professor and the first head of the department of physics at the newly organized University of Chicago.
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	Science in Poland - Albert Michelson
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born in Strzelno (Poland) on December 19, 1852.
		Albert Michelson married Margaret Heminway in New Rochelle in 1877.
		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.
	www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr /physique/perso/charrier/tp/michelson/aam.html (1539 words)

	Albert Abraham Michelson (1852 - 1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Michelson acompanhou esse desenvolvimento na posição de espectador, sustentando que a física relativística seria uma evolução da física clássica, destinada a estudar problemas específicos da luz ou de qualquer partícula que se deslocasse em velocidade "relativística" (próxima da velocidade da luz).
		Michelson levantou a hipótese de que a Terra pudesse sofrer pequenas deformações devido às forças gravitacionais da Lua.
		Michelson morreu poucos dias depois, a 9 de maio de 1931, em Pasadena, Califórnia, levando consigo a satisfação de ver que, mais uma vez, suas suposições estavam corretas.
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	Albert Abraham Michelson
		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 was born in Strzelno, Poland (then Strelno, Provinz Posen Kingdom of Prussia), the son of a Jewish merchant.
		It is quite certain that Albert Einstein knew of the work (according to his 1905 paper), and it greatly assisted the acceptance of the Theory of Relativity.
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	Albert Abraham Michelson 1852-1931 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Albert A. Michelson's background, which seems odd to modern eyes, was not surprising in his own times.
		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.
		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.
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	Albert A. Michelson - Biography
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born in Strelno, Prussia, on December 19, 1852.
		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.
		Michelson has contributed numerous papers to many scientific periodicals and among his more substantial works are the classics, Velocity of Light (1902) Light Waves and their Uses (1899-1903); and Studies in Optics (1927).
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	Michelson, Albert Abraham
		The failure of the experiment indicated the nonexistence of the ether, and led Albert Einstein to his theory of relativity.
		Michelson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1907 for his measurement of the speed of light through the design and application of precise optical instruments such as the interferometer.
		He invented the Michelson interferometer to detect any difference in the velocity of light in two directions at right angles.
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	Planet Quest: Technology - Interferometry
		Michelson used the same principle of the swimmers in his first interferometer.
		Albert Einstein finally took a brave step forward with the publication of his theory of special relativity in 1906.
		In 1919, Albert Michelson enhanced the resolution of the then largest telescope in the world, the 100-inch Hooker telescope on Mt. Wilson, to measure for the first time the diameter of a star.
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	Albert Abraham Michelson Biography \| World of Scientific Discovery
		Michelson devoted most of his energy toward attempting to prove the existence of ether, an invisible substance that many felt comprised space and through which the planets and light were thought to travel.
		Michelson hypothesized that he could prove the existence of an ether wind by comparing the speed of two beams of light, one traveling across the direction of the ether wind's flow, one traveling against the ether.
		Using the fringes of red cadmium light, Michelson measured the length of a meter in terms of wavelengths of light, paving the way for the use of wavelength as an international standard for measuring length.
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		Michelson was born in Strzelno, Poland, to Samuel and Rozalia Michelson.
		Accepting a professorship in physics at Case University in Cleveland, Ohio, Michelson began a collaboration with Edward Morley (1838-1923) to try to prove or disprove the existence of "ether," a substance that was thought to permeate space, allowing electromagnetic radiation to be transmitted.
		Michelson commented in 1894: "The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.
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	Life - Albert Abraham Michelson
		Albert Abraham Michelson, (December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931), was a Poland-USA physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light.
		Michelson was born in Strzelno, Poland (then Strelno, Provinz Posen Kingdom of Prussia).
		In 1883 he accepted a position as professor of physics at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio and concentrated on developing an improved interferometer.
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	Michelson, Albert Abraham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Michelson was the first American to be awarded a Nobel prize, in 1907.
		Michelson was born in Strelno (now Strzelno, Poland); his family emigrated to the USA and Michelson attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis.
		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.
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	Michelson
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born 19 December 1852 at Strelno, Poland.
		Michelson was commissioned master 5 March 1879, and in 1880 was given leave of absence for advanced studies in Europe.
		Commander Michelson was released from the Navy 30 September 1921, and after another decade of significant research into the properties of light, died 9 May 1931 in Pasadena, Calif.
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	Albert Abraham Michelson
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born to a Jewish family in 1852 in Strelno, Prussia.
		When Michelson was two, his family moved to the United States, settling first in Virginia City Nevada and then moving to San Francisco.
		Michelson was a gifted experimentalist who did extremely precise experiments in optics.
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		Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852 in Strelno, Poland (then a part of Prussia) to Samuel and Rosalie Przlubska Michelson.
		Michelson resigned from the Navy and took an appointment as Professor of Physics in the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio in 1883.
		Michelson in the Navy: The Navy in Michelson, by Dorothy Michelson Livingston, 1969, pamphlet
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	Albert Abraham Michelson - Wikipedia
		Michelson veröffentlichte sein Ergebnis von 299.910±50 km/s 1879, bevor er zu Newcomb nach Washington DC ging, um ihn bei seinen Messungen dort zu unterstützen.
		Michelson suchte nach einer anderen Messmethode, aber diesmal in einer evakuierten Röhre, um Schwierigkeiten der Bildinterpretation wegen atmosphärischer Effekte zu vermeiden.
		Michelson bestimmte auf diese Weise den Durchmesser von Beteigeuze zu 386 Mio.
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	Albert Michelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Michelson interferometer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Michelson interferometer is the most common configuration for optical interferometry and was invented by Albert Abraham Michelson.
		Michelson, along with Edward Morley, used this interferometer for the famous Michelson-Morley experiment in which this interferometer was used to prove the non-existence of the luminiferous aether.
		The Michelson Interferometer has been used for the detection of gravitational waves, as a tunable narrow band filter, and as the core of Fourier transform spectroscopy.
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	Michelson, Albert Abraham - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		That led to the refutation of the ether hypothesis and contributed to the development of Einstein's theory of relativity.
		Michelson was the first to measure the diameter of a distant star.
		He also demonstrated that the earth as a whole is rigid, not molten.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-michelso.html (359 words)

	Science in Poland - Albert Michelson
		Albert Michelson married Margaret McLean Heminway in New Rochelle, New York, on April 10, 1877.
		This was the experiment by Albert A. Michelson [...] to determine the speed of light.
		Albert Abraham Michelson - "Mistrz swiatla" [in Polish]
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	Meitner, Lise and Michelson, Albert Abraham
		Michelson was born in Strelno, Germany in 1852.
		The star chosen by Michelson for this experiemnt was Betelgeuse in Alpha Orionis.
		From an analysis of the spectrum lines of varying elements Michelson discovered that the red line of cadmium could be measured with precision.
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	Albert Abraham Michelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Albert Abraham Michelson, (pronounciation 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.
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