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	Albert Michelson
		Michelson was born on December 19, 1852 in Strzelno, Poland.
		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.
		Michelson did not see how he had helped physics by shattering the belief of the mysterious "aether." Nevertheless, he calculated one of the most accurate values for the speed of light in 1923.
	www.usd.edu /phys/courses/phys300/gallery/clark/mich.html (709 words)

	Planet Quest: Technology - Interferometry
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born on December 19, 1852 in Strelno, Prussia (today Strzelno, Poland).
		Early on Michelson was fascinated with the sciences and the problem of measuring the speed of light in particular.
		Michelson used the same principle of the swimmers in his first interferometer.
	planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov /technology/michelson.cfm (1101 words)

	Science in Poland - Albert Michelson
		Albert Abraham Michelson was born in Strzelno (Poland) on December 19, 1852.
		Albert A. Michelson was the first Nobel laureate of the University of Chicago for his measurements of the speed of light.
		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.staff.amu.edu.pl /~zbzw/ph/sci/aam.htm (2093 words)

	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).
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1907/michelson-bio.html (611 words)

	Albert Abraham Michelson 1852-1931
		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.
	www.aip.org /history/gap/Michelson/Michelson.html (763 words)

	Science in Poland - Albert Michelson
		Albert Michelson married Margaret Heminway in New Rochelle in 1877.
		Albert A. Michelson was the first Nobel laureate of the University of Chicago for his measurements of the speed of light.
		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)

	MSC -- Albert Michelson
		As a student Michelson was fascinated with the sciences in general, and the problem of measuring the speed of light in particular.
		By 1887, Michelson and colleague Edward Williams Morley conducted what was to be known as the Michelson-Morley experiment.
		Michelson's stellar interferometer went on to measure the measure the diameter of several other bright stars, and to resolve several close binary stars.
	msc.caltech.edu /about/aaMichelson.html (391 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 accomplished his research and inventions in the course of his teaching career as a professor of physics at various institutions of higher education.
		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.
	www.nadn.navy.mil /LibExhibits/Michelson/Michelson_career.html (1079 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.
		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.
		Michelson and Morley expected to see their light beams shifted by the swift motion of the earth in space.
	www.aip.org /history/einstein/emc1.htm (435 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.
		Waves of this crisis rolled as far forward in time as to still rule science today, and though, for more than one hundred years, having been repeatedly discussed and tested, the question about the physical nature of the surrounding world is still as vague as one hundred years ago.
		Michelson interferometer and a draft for calculation of light velocity for an arbitrary direction.
	www.keelynet.com /spider/b-108e.htm (242 words)

	Albert Abraham Michelson Biography and Summary
		The American physicist Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931) is important for his determination of the velocity of light and the study of optical interference.
		Albert Michelson was born on Dec. 19, 1852, in German Poland.
		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 experimen...
	www.bookrags.com /Albert_Abraham_Michelson (300 words)

	Albert Abraham Michelson - Encyclopedia.com
		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.
		Beijing in summer 2000 were paid exclusively on a commission basis (Michelson 2003:209-10), almost all (93 percent) of the lawyers I interviewed...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Michelso.html (775 words)

	Michelson: Personal Life and Interests
		Michelson was married to his second wife Edna Stanton from 1899 until his death in 1931.
		Albert A. Michelson had many interests outside of the realm of physics and science, including music, art, billiards, chess, and tennis.
		The majority of Michelson’s painting was completed in his later years and during his retirement, consisting mostly of watercolors of California landscapes.
	www.usna.edu /LibExhibits/Michelson/Michelson_personal.html (299 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)

	Dayton Miller's Ether-Drift
		By contrast, the original Michelson-Morley interferometer had a round-trip light-path of around 22 meters (Michelson 1927, p.153), and the experiments were undertaken with an opaque wooden cover over the instrument, situated in the basement of one of the large stone buildings at Case School in Cleveland.
		Michelson went to his grave convinced that light speed was inconstant in different directions, and also convinced of the existence of the ether.
		Michelson and a few others of the period took Miller's work seriously, but Einstein and his followers appeared to view Miller only as a threat, something to be "explained away" as expeditiously as possible.
	www.orgonelab.org /miller.htm (10465 words)

	Deutschlandfunk - Einsteins Erben
		Der Kult um Albert Einstein, dessen Konterfei heute auf T-Shirts, Tassen und Teller gedruckt wird, lässt sich aber nur teils mit seiner herausragenden Bedeutung für die Wissenschaft erklären.
		Mehr über das Leben von Albert Einstein erfahren Sie in einem kleinen Schwerpunkt von Forschung Aktuell.
		Albert Einsteins spezielle Relativitätstheorie von 1905 besagt, dass Uhren, die sich schnell bewegen, langsamer ticken als baugleiche Uhren, die ruhen.
	www.dradio.de /dlf/sendungen/einsteins-erben/357219 (541 words)

	The Play Station @ UVSC - Respondus Standard Format
		Albert Michelson won the Nobel Prize for Physics for determining the exact speed of light.
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		@ Albert Michelson was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Physics (1907) for his measurements of the speed of light.
	www.uvsc.edu /disted/playstation/format.htm (582 words)

	Michelson Memorial Lecture Series
		The Michelson Memorial Lecture Series commemorates the achievements of Albert A. Michelson, whose experiments on the measurement of the speed of light were initiated while he was a military instructor at the U. Naval Academy.
		In the late 1870’s, a Navy lieutenant and instructor in the Academy’s Department of Physics, Albert Michelson, performed his now-famous experiments to measure the velocity of light.
		In 1907 Michelson, a graduate of the Naval Academy class of 1873, became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
	www.usna.edu /MathSci/Michelson_lecture.html (344 words)

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