Albert Michelson


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United States physicist (born in Germany) who collaborated with Morley in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1852-1931)

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The book, Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer: A Visual Tour of a Nineteenth Century Machine That Performs Fourier Analysis, is available as a free PDF download at www.engineerguy.com/fourier.
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MOUNTAIN TO MOUNTAIN Albert Michelson (1852-1931) conducted speed-of-light measurements in the 1920s on two southern California mountaintops.
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The mechanistic universe of Newton held sway for nearly three centuries till 1887 when two physicists Albert Michelson and Edward Morley pronounced that the speed of light was constant, no matter how fast the observer was travelling.
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Scientists have known that jewel scarabs reflect CP light since the renowned physicist Albert Michelson discovered it in 1911.
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