Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21979

    Interference phenomena

    Date
    1903
    Creator
    Unknown, Lithographer
    After
    Albert Abraham Michelson (1852 - 1931) , Physicist
    Object type
    Library reference
    13359
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 222mm
    width (print): 135mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Description
    Graphical representation of interference spectra in soap film showing the coloured bands deeper at the top and fading to alternating bands of pink and green near the bottom. Further illustration representing the fringe pattern of monochromatic light.

    Inscribed ‘PLATE II. 1. 2.’

    Plate II to Light waves and their uses by A. A. Michelson, 1903.

    Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931), American physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1902. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 1907 for his investigations in optics.

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