Mi·chel·son

(mī′kəl-sən), Albert Abraham 1852-1931.

Prussian-born American physicist who with Edward Morley helped to disprove the existence of ether, the hypothetical medium of electromagnetic waves. He won a 1907 Nobel Prize in physics.

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Michelson

(ˈmaɪkəlsən)

(Biography) Albert Abraham. 1852–1931, US physicist, born in Germany: noted for his part in the Michelson-Morley experiment: Nobel prize for physics 1907

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Mi•chel•son

(ˈmaɪ kəl sən)

n.

Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland).

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