앨버트 에이브러햄 마이컬슨

소개

앨버트 에이브러햄 마이컬슨(Albert Abraham Michelson, 1852년 12월 9일 ~ 1931년 5월 9일)은 폴란드계 미국인 물리학자이다. 빛의 속도와 에테르에 관한 업적을 남겼다.

Albert Abraham Michelson was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science. He was the founder and the first head of the physics departments of the Case School of Applied Science and the University of Chicago.