Albert A. Michelson
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![Page one of Michelson's Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light](/Images/godic/202412/18/Michelson_-_Experimental_Determination_of_the_Speed_of_Light,_p_11733.jpg")
![Lt. Cmdr. Albert A. Michelson while serving in the U.S. Navy. He rejoined the U.S. Navy in World War I,[16] when this portrait was taken.](/Images/godic/202412/18/Albert_Abraham_Michelson_19181733.jpg")
![A monument at United States Naval Academy marks the path of Michelson's experiments measuring the speed of light.](/Images/godic/202412/18/Michaelson_experiment_annapolis1733.JPG")
Albert Abraham Michelson (surname pronunciation anglicized as "Michael-son", December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was an 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 the Nobel Prize in Physics. He became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences.