"for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid"
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| Albert Abraham Michelson |
| USA |
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA |
b. 1852
(in Strelno, then Germany)
d. 1931 |
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