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What was the name of the first American to win a Nobel Prize in a science, who conducted research at Case Western Reserve University?

  • Albert A. Michelson

  • Thomas Edison

  • Marie Curie

  • Niels Bohr

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Albert A. Michelson, who conducted the famous Michelson-Morley experiment at Case Western Reserve University in 1887, was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in a science. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907 for his precision optical instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid.
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