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Albert A. Michelson

American physicist

1852 - 1931

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His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2024). Albert A. Michelson is the 12th most popular physicist (up from 86th in 2024), the 8th most popular biography from Poland (up from 64th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Physicist.

Albert Michelson is most famous for measuring the speed of light.

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Albert A. Michelson climbed 2,929 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #3,400 to #471.

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Albert A. Michelson ranks #8 among 2,054 people in Pantheon born in Poland, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Albert A. Michelson's biography appears in 93 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 95% of all Physicists.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Albert A. Michelson ranks 12 out of 863. Before him are Wilhelm Röntgen, Michael Faraday, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, and Alessandro Volta. After him are Pierre Curie, André-Marie Ampère, Evangelista Torricelli, Erwin Schrödinger, Henri Becquerel, and J. J. Thomson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Albert A. Michelson ranks 2. Before him is Antoni Gaudí. After him are Henri Becquerel, Emperor Meiji, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, William Ramsay, Henri Moissan, Charles Taze Russell, Gojong of Korea, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, and Francisco Tárrega. Among people deceased in 1931, Albert A. Michelson ranks 3. Before him are Thomas Edison, and Khalil Gibran. After him are Otto Wallach, Gustave Le Bon, Anna Pavlova, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Louise, Princess Royal, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Omar Mukhtar, Arthur Schnitzler, and Lili Elbe.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Albert A. Michelson ranks 8 out of 2,054. Before him are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Pope John Paul II (1920), Frédéric Chopin (1810), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), and Rosa Luxemburg (1871). After him are Lech Wałęsa (1943), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), and Günter Grass (1927).

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Among Physicists In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Albert A. Michelson ranks 2. Before him is Marie Curie (1867). After him are Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Otto Stern (1888), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Leopold Infeld (1898), and Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848).

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