In what year did Michelson receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
1905
1907
1912
1915
Answer
In 1907, Albert Abraham Michelson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid. His most famous experiment, the Michelson–Morley experiment, played a crucial role in the development of Theory of relativity.
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