Albert Michelson
Professor of physics at the Case Institute from 1880–1889. He is most famous for his work on the Michelson-Morley Experiment. Michelson won the Nobel prize in physics in 1907, the first ever awarded to an American. Michelson House on the Case campus is named after him.
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