Albert Abraham Michelson, 1852-1931 – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Albert Abraham Michelson, 1852-1931
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Albert Abraham Michelson, the American physicist shown here, was photographed in 1930, the year before his death. He is best known for the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, which measured the speed of light relative to the supposed luminiferous ether and found no detectable difference, a null result that helped set the stage for Einstein's special theory of relativity. Michelson also became the first American to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences, receiving the 1907 prize in physics for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with them. The portrait is a useful record of a scientist whose careful measurements reshaped modern physics.
| Created / published | 1930 May 19. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | A- Abraham |
| Notes | No. CH505975S". This record contains unverified |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,231 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147530 |
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