Albert Abraham Michelson

1852 - 1931

Professor and Head of Physics Department, University of Chicago, 1892-1929. Won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1907.

AAAS Presidential Address: A. A. Michelson, "Recent Progress in Spectroscopic Methods," Science (29 December 1911) 34:893-902.

Discipline: Physics

AAAS offices held:

• President, 1910

Related Archives:

• American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library
  http://www.aip.org/history/nblbro.htm
  
  
• U.S. Naval Academy, Nimitz Library, Special Collections and Archives
  http://www.usna.edu/Library/Spec_col.htm
  
  
• Nobel e-Museum, The Nobel Foundation
  http://nobelprize.org/