In 1920 this man accurately measured the diameter of Betelgeuse, making him the first to accurately determine the size of a star.
In 1920 this man accurately measured the diameter of Betelgeuse, making him the first to accurately determine the size of a star. The first head of the physics department at the University of Chicago, in 1923 he returned to the problem which obsessed him throughout his life, utilizing a 35-kilometer pathway between two mountain peaks and later an evacuated tube equipped with an eight-sided mirror to make extremely accurate measurements of the speed of light, but he is better-known for winning the 1907 Physics Nobel Prize and for his work with the interferometer he built. FTP, who was this physicist who with Edward Morley disproved the theory of ether?
In 1920 this man accurately measured the diameter of Betelgeuse, making him the first to accurately determine the size of a star.
Albert Abraham Michelson