Physicist Albert A. Michelson received the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing an interferometer, which incorporates a translucent mirror to divide a beam of light waves, route them through ...

1907: Albert Michelson is named first American scientist to win the Nobel Prize in physics. 1923: John J. R. Macleod, professor of physiology/medicine, wins the Nobel Prize. 1954: Frederick C. Robbins ...

Physicists regard this work as a crucial step in our journey toward an understanding of the very nature of space and time itself Had the results of this measurement been different, Einstein's theory ...

Einstein’s special relativity, which he formulated in his “miracle year” of 1905, was a theory that revolutionised our ideas of space and time – and ultimately paved the way for some even ...

Research!America – the country's premier nonprofit medical and health research alliance – presented inventor and philanthropist Gary K. Michelson, MD with the Gordon and Llura Gund Leadership Award at ...