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Also Known As electromagnetic constant • c • velocity of light

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A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
James Bradley, detail of an oil painting after Thomas Hudson, c. 1742-47; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Bradley
English astronomer
Harlow Shapley
American astronomer
Lene Hau
Danish scientist
Louis Essen
British physicist
Ole Rømer
Ole Rømer
Danish astronomer
Foucault, Léon
Léon Foucault
French physicist

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