Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Who was the first American to receive a Nobel Prize?

  1. Albert Abraham Michelson

  2. Martin Luther King

  3. Betrand Russell

  4. William Henry Bragg
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Albert Abraham Michelson, an American physicist, was the first American to receive a Nobel Prize when he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907 for his precision optical instruments and measurements. Martin Luther King won later (1964), Bertrand Russell was British, and William Henry Bragg was British (shared Nobel with his son).

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