Michelson
Speech parts
1. Michelson - Noun
2. Michelson - Proper noun
Meaning
United States physicist (born in Germany) who collaborated with Morley in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1852-1931)
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Adjuncts to the tunnels lead underground to the basement levels of Michelson Hall, Chauvenet Hall, and Rickover Hall.
Albert A. Michelson conducted experiments on the speed of light from 1877 until his death in 1931.
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Bloomfield, Leonard, 1929, 274; cited in Rogers, David, 1987, 88 In a letter to Algonquianist Truman Michelson, Bloomfield noted "My models are Pāṇini and the kind of work done in Indo-European by my teacher, Professor Wackernagel of Basle."
In 1911, Albert Abraham Michelson discovered that light reflected from the golden scarab beetle Chrysina resplendens is preferentially left-polarized.
A Michelson interferometer, where light from a is split at b, bounces off the mirrors at d and c, us recombined at q and then observed at e.