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Black and white portrait of a young Albert Michelson. He has an elaborate waxed mustache, and his dark hair is part on the left. Michelson wears a light colored jacket, buttoned high, with a dark tie and white shirt with a vertical collar.

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Black and white portrait of a young Albert Michelson. He has an elaborate waxed mustache, and his dark hair is part on the left. Michelson wears a light colored jacket, buttoned high, with a dark tie and white shirt with a vertical collar.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 16:06:13 UTC Robert McNees

Albert Michelson, pioneer of optical interferometry, was born #OTD in 1852.
Michelson refined measurements of the speed of light, failed to find evidence of the aether, and developed a method that now underlies gravitational wave detection.
Photo: “Practical Physics,” Millikan & Gale

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