Albert Michelson(1852-1931)
The German born US physicist. He was the first American to win a Nobel prize for his measurements of the speed of light. In the 1880's Michelson and the US Physicist Edward Morley try to find out how fast the earth moved through the ether. The result was the ether wasn't exist at all. This later provided the basis of Einstein's theory of relativity.
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