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There never was one. Hundreds of researchers all over the world

worked for centuries on measuring the speed of light, and it was

known within 2% of the presently defined value, 20 years before

the Nobel Prizes were ever created.

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The fact that light had speed was well known as far back as the ancient Greeks. However it would not be until modern times that equipment was sensitive enough to deduce with a margin or error, something close to the accepted value.

In 1983 at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures an exact value for the speed of light in a vacuum was set at 299,792.458 m/s [See Link]

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Jean Bernard Leon Foucault of France in the 1800's was the first to successfully measure the speed of light.

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Albert Abraham Michelson in 1907

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