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Comfort A. Adams

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American electrical engineer (1868-1958)

United StatesScientistsLived 1868 to 1958 · aged 89
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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.

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1956Edison Medal
1940IEEE Lamme Medal
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1868 to 1958 · aged 89
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6 languages

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