A monument to the late Albert Michaelson, the American-Jewish physicist, will be unveiled next month in the Polish town of Czelno, where he was born in 1852, it was learned here today.
Dr. Michaelson, who died in 1931, was a student of Albert Einstein, and one of the world’s foremost authorities on Einstein’s theory of relativity. He was brought to the United States by his parents when he was 5 years old, and eventually became a professor of physics at the University of Chicago. The monument will be dedicated during an international conference of physicists scheduled to take place in Poland in September.
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