Foreword by the Associate Editor [Historical Corner]

摘要

On January 24, 2008, I participated in a workshop in Padova, Italy, dedicated to the one hundred years since Albert Abraham Michelson (Strzelno, Prussia, December 19, 1852 - Pasadena, California, USA, May 9, 1931) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Michelson received the Nobel Prize in 1907 “for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid” (see http:/obelprize.orgobelyrizes/physics/laureates/1907/michelso n-lecture.html).