In Chicago, there dwells a renowned professor named Albert Abraham Michelson. A member of the faculty of the University of Chicago, he has made many a valuable contribution to Science. Born at Strelno, Germany, a son of Samuel Michelson and Rosalie Przlubska, he is a brother of Charles Michelson (rabidly Democratic chief of The New York World's Washington Bureau) and of Miriam Michelson (author). But he graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis when these two were still on the Pacific coast, in swaddling clothes.
Albert became an instructor in physics at the Naval...
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