Back Albert Abraham Michelson AN ألبرت ميكلسون Arabic البرت ميكلسون ARZ Albert Abraham Michelson AST Albert Maykelson Azerbaijani آلبرت آبراهام مایکلسون AZB Альберт Абрахам Майкельсан Byelorussian Албърт Майкелсън Bulgarian আলবার্ট আব্রাহাম মাইকেলসন Bengali/Bangla Albert Abraham Michelson BS
Albert Abraham Michelson FFRS FRSE (surname pronunciation anglicized as "Michael-son", December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was a Prussian-born American physicist of Jewish descent, 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 Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University) and the University of Chicago.