Honors and Awards
- Nobel Prize for Physics (1907)
- Rumford Prize (1888)
- Matteucci Medal (1903)
- Copley Medal (1907)
- Elliott Cresson Medal (1912)
- Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences (1916)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1923)
- Franklin Medal (1923)
Michelson was a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The Computer Measurement Group gives an annual A. A. Michelson Award.
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