From midshipman to physicist, 1964.

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From midshipman to physicist, 1964.

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A research paper on Albert Abraham Michelson submitted to the head of the Dept. of English, History, and Government, U.S. Naval Academy.

34 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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