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. In 1907 he received a Nobel prize for physics, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in the sciences.

Reference in Bonanza television series

In the television series Bonanza, there was an episode where Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) helped young Albert Abraham Michelson obtain his appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, despite the opposition of a racist teacher. Bonanza was set in and around Virginia City, Nevada, where Michelson lived prior to his appointment to the Naval Academy. In the postscript to the episode, Greene mentions Michelson's 1907 Nobel Prize.

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