Albert Michelson, who measured the speed of light and became the first American to win the Nobel Prize (1907), attended school in Murphys.
Michelson school's namesake
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Albert Michelson, who measured the speed of light and became the first American to win the Nobel Prize (1907), attended school in Murphys.
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