Nobel Peace prizes are awared to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". Not for discoveries in physics. There is a separate Nobel prize for physics, but it doesn't seem as if any of those were awared in relation to measuring the speed of light.
There wasn't any. The speed of light was measured by many different
investigators over a period of more than a hundred years. The results kept
getting more and more accurate, and several years before the Nobel Prizes
were born, the speed was known within a small fraction of 1% of today's
accepted value.
-- There was never a Nobel Prize awarded for measuring the speed of light.
-- If there were, then it would have been the prize in Physics, not the Peace prize.
-- If there were, and it was awarded to a German, Russian, Israeli, or African
physicist, then it would not have been an American Nobel Prize.
Nobody did. The Nobel Peace Prize is given for work in the field of Peace.
For work concerning light, it would be the Nobel Prize for Physics.
But there never was one for measuring the speed of light. That measurement
was pursued by hundreds of researchers, its accuracy improved steadily over
several decades, and it was pretty well nailed down many years before the Nobel
Prizes originated.
If anyone deserved a Nobel prize on that subject, it would have to be James
Clerk-Maxwell, who predicted that light is an electromagnetic wave before
anybody else thought about it, and predicted its speed without making any
measurements. But he was way ahead of his time, and I don't think he even
lived to hear about the Nobel prizes.
Albert Abraham Michelson was the first American to win a Nobel prize for measuring the speed of light. The prize was for physics.
There never was a Nobel Prize awarded for measuring the speed oflight.
There was never a Nobel Prize awarded for measuring the speed of light.
speed of light I think well it sounds right:)
The speed of light in water is less than the speed of light in space. Only light can travel at the speed of light.
The speed of light is about 880 thousand timesfaster than the speed of sound.
The speed of light is much greater than the speed of sound.
It is believed that the speed of light is the highest possible speed.
Albert Abraham Michelson. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences.
Albert Michaelson, but it's not the Nobel Peace prize. (The speed of llight has nothing to do with peace.)
Albert Michelson
If you're actually talking about the Nobel Prize, nobody did. The speed of light was a hot topic in the late 19th Century, because if it turned out to be equal to a certain coefficient in Maxwell's wave equation, then that would be a strong confirmation of the idea that light is an electromagnetic wave. So it was really hot, and physicists around the world were inventing all kinds of clever experiments to measure it accurately. There were hundreds of researchers working on the question, and the number was known with an error of less than two percent, by 30 years before the Nobel Prizes ever began. On the other hand, if you really want to know about the noble bell prize, then I'm afraid I have no information on that one.
The first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics was Albert A. Michelson. He was cited in 1907 for the invention of the interferometer, for spectroscopic investigations, and for measurements of the speed of light over a period of 50 years.
Albert Michelson was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for measuring the speed of light.
My list of Nobel Prizes in Physics lists 88 individuals between 1901 and 1967, along with their contributions, and the speed of light is nowhere on the list. The speed of light was known with an error of only 0.02% by 15 years before the first Nobel Prizes were ever awarded. It was the subject of intensive study by hundreds of scientists throughout the 19th Century, and was PREDICTED by Maxwell, without any measurement, a solid 30 years before the Nobel Prizes. So I'm pretty sure there wasn't any prize awarded for that particular measurement.
the first American to win the nobel prize for measuring the speed of light was Albert A Michelson
Albert Abraham Michelson (December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931) was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences.
Is what the speed of light or light speed.ANSWER300,000 km/s
speed of light I think well it sounds right:)
speed of light