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US
/ˈmaɪkəɫsən/
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NOUN
- United States physicist (born in Germany) who collaborated with Morley in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1852-1931)
How To Use Michelson In A Sentence
- Michelson's interferometer is capable of an application no less significant than those which we have already considered. Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 - Presentation Speech
- Mrs. Michelson, a Bethesda resident, was co-owner of Arrow Leading Corp. in Mount Rainier from the 1960s to 1980s. Miriam R. Michelson, business owner, volunteer
- Unsurprisingly, Michelson suggests freshness is all-important: It is important when making cheese at home the milk has to be as fresh as possible and preferably unhomogenised. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- Michelson of Königsberg describes a curious case in a barrister of twenty-three affected with partial canities. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- There are two main structures in the test system: polarization state adjustment and Michelson interferometer.
- Lorentz wrote a paper in 1886 where he criticised Michelson's experiment and really was not worried by the experimental result which he dismissed being doubtful of its accuracy.
- The 1907 Nobel Prize for Physics therefore went to Michelson for his ‘optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid’.
- The Swedish physicist prized Michelson's use of his interferometer in metrology and, in particular, for determining experimentally the length of the international metre.