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Who was born in December 1852

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Albert Abraham Michelson

Albert Abraham Michelson

18521931

American experimental physicist renowned for his measurements of the speed of light and the Michelson-Morley experiment, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science

Henri Becquerel

Henri Becquerel

18521908

French experimental physicist who discovered spontaneous radioactivity and won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics