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Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Albert A. Michelson, professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, is seen on June 23, 1930. (AP Photo Stock Photo - Alamy
Albert Abraham Michelson (left), Albert Einstein (center), and Robert Andrews Millikan (right) | Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences, standing next to the vacuum tube he used to measure the velocity of light, ca.1930 — Calisphere
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