the first American to win the nobel prize for measuring the speed of light was Albert A Michelson
The first American to win the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed of light was Albert A. Michelson in 1907. His precise measurements helped advance the understanding of the fundamental constant and its significance in physics.
Ole Roemer - and several scientists after him, with ever-increasing accuracy, for example, Michelson's measurement was quite accurate.
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 Michelson
Albert Michaelson, but it's not the Nobel Peace prize. (The speed of llight has nothing to do with peace.)
Albert Michelson was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for measuring the speed of light.
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.
Scholar and diplomat Ralph J. Bunche was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, in 1950.
Toni Morrison, was the first African American woman to win a nobel prize in literature in 1993
Dr. Ralph Bunche from USA won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950
Theodore Roosevelt became the 1st American awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906. He had assisted in mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
Theodore Roosevelt, in his work for a peace treaty in the Russo Japanese War (Nobel Peace Prize)
Tiger Woods
The first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize was Gabriela Mistral, a Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. The first Latin American to win the Nobel Peace Prize was Argentinian diplomat Carlos Saavedra Lamas, who won in 1936 for his role in negotiating peace in the Chaco War.