# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/comfort-a-adams
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:18:50.615Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/comfort-a-adams"
name: "Comfort A. Adams"
slug: "comfort-a-adams"
description: "Comfort Avery Adams was an American electrical engineer who as a student helped Albert A. Michelson with the Michelson–Morley experiment (1887), which was later viewed as confirming the special relativity theory of Albert Einstein (1905). He was a recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal and AIEE Lamme Medal."
tagline: "American electrical engineer (1868–1958)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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birthDate: "1868-11-01"
deathDate: "1958-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump