Who was the first American to be awarded a Nobel Prize? ++++++ 03-23-03, 08:51 PM Leppi Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931), one of the world's most distinguished physicists, became head of the physics department at the University of Chicago in 1892 and held that post until he retired in 1929. In 1907 he won the Nobel prize in physics for his optical instruments of precision and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations which he carried out by means of them. He was the first American scientist to receive the honor.
03-24-03, 07:29 PM mozart56 Yafa I did not mention any fields, but an American got " a Nobel prize " prior Mr: Michelson. Smile
03-26-03, 10:48 PM mozart56 Here's a clue 1906.Michelson got a Nobel Prize the next year in "physics"
03-27-03, 02:26 AM Jenny Roberts It was J J Thomson
03-27-03, 10:28 AM methos Teddy Roosevelt got the Peace Prize in 1906.
(Jenny, J.J. Thompson was from the UK)
03-28-03, 11:34 PM mozart56 You are right Methos Cool
