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    February 11, 2021

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    The Michelson House opened in 1879 as the headquarters of the Royal Astrophysical Observatory in Potsdam. It was named after the Nobel Prize winner (1907) Albert A. Michelson.
    In 1881 he carried out his important measurements of the relative motion of the earth against the hypothetical ether in the basement, the results of which became the basis for Einstein's theory of relativity.


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