Multiple choice

The Prussian born US physicist known as the first American to win a Nobel prize for his measurements of the speed of light

  1. Thomas Young

  2. Max Planck

  3. Albert Michelson

  4. Albert Einstein

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Explanation

Albert Michelson was indeed the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Physics (1907) for his precise measurements of the speed of light using the Michelson-Morley experiment apparatus. He was born in Prussia (now Poland) and emigrated to the US as a child. Max Planck was German, Einstein was also German-born, and Thomas Young was British.