Albert A. Michelson
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1 (of 1) 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.
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