Albert Abraham Michelson
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Three Nobel Laureates in Physics standing in front of the Athenaeum at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 1931. Front row from left:
Albert A. Michelson, Albert Einstein and Robert A. Millikan.
Source: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Photographer unknown
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