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Albert Michelson

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Profession
Physicist
Died
May 9, 1931
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
Germany
About
Nobel Prize winning physicist who measured the speed of light, which laid the foundation for the Theory of Relativity. In his long and important career he also received he Copley Medal in 1907, the Henry Draper Medal in 1916 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1923.
Family
His family moved to the U.S. when he was two, eventually settling in San Francisco.

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