Michelson, Albert Abraham

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Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931). 92Edward Williams Morley (1838-1923). 

Albert Abraham Michelson, 1852-1931, a German-American physicist, and Edward Morley 1838-1923, an American chemist, collaborated on these measurements in 1887 at Case Western Reserve University. 

There are a number of interferometer designs used by FTIR manufacturers. The oldest and perhaps the most common type of interferometer in use today is the Michelson interferometer. It is named after Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931) who first built his interferometer in the 1880s [1] and went on to win a Nobel Prize in Physics for the discoveries he made with it. The optical design of a Michelson interferometer is shown in Figure 2.2. Even if your FTIR does not have a Michelson interferometer in it, the following discussion will be relevant because the basics of interferometer operation are similar for all interferometer types. 

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