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May 9

Deaths of Nobel Prize in Physics Winners

• 1931: Albert Abraham Michelson
  • Nobel Prize in 1907 "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid"
  • Bio from the Nobel website

Other Deaths

• 1850: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
  • Best known for his gas laws.
  • More: http://www.nndb.com/people/885/000100585/

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