Studies in Optics

by Albert Abraham Michelson

Nobel Prize-winning physicist describes ground-breaking researches in light and optics, including famed experiment that confirmed the speed of light as a fundamental physical constant. Also, work with interferometer, measurement of light waves, astronomical applications, much more. Accessible to layman. 92 figures. 3 color illustrations. 1962 edition.

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Prussian-born American physicist Albert Abraham Michelson with Edward Williams Morley helped to disprove the existence of ether, the hypothetical medium of electromagnetic waves, and won a Nobel Prize of 1907 in physics.

People know for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the experiment. He received the first in sciences.

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