Prof. Albert Michelson world-famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner, today resigned from the faculty of the University of Chicago, where for years he has been head of the department of physics. The resignation has been accepted by the University’s board of trustees with regret.
In his letter of resignation. Prof, Michelson called attention to his recent illness and said his ill-health forbade a continuance of his faculty duties. The resignation is effective in July 1930. He recently underwent two operations. Last Thursday he celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday.
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