Michelson (name) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Michelson is a patronymic

Patronymic

A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...

surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

meaning "son of Michel". The prefix Michel-, a variant of Michael

Michael

Michael is a given name that comes from the , derived from the Hebrew question מי כמו אלוהים? meaning "Who is like God?" In English, it is sometimes shortened to Mike, Mikey, or, especially in Ireland, Mick...

, comes from (mee-KHA-el), meaning "Who is like God?" . A common English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

surname, there are other English and Scandinavia

Scandinavia

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n spellings. It is rare as a given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

. People with the name Michelson include:

Albert Abraham Michelson
Albert Abraham Michelson
Albert Abraham Michelson was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics...

, the 19th/20th century physicist, corrected speed of light
Harold Michelson
Harold Michelson
Harold Michelson was an American production designer and art director. In addition, he worked as an illustrator and/or storyboard artist on numerous films from the 1940s through the 1990s.-Biography:...

, American illustrator
Leo Michelson
Leo Michelson
Leo Michelson was an American artist considered part of the École de Paris, although his works span many periods and styles.-Biography:Michelson was born in Riga, Latvia. He attended the Imperial Academy in St...

, the 20th century artist
Lisa Michelson
Lisa Michelson
Lisa P. Michelson was an American voice actress best known for her English roles in the Streamline dubs. She is best known for providing the voices of Satsuki in My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki in Kiki's Delivery Service...

, American actress
Richard Michelson
Richard Michelson
Richard Michelson is a poet and a children's book author.In January 2009, As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom, was awarded the Sydney Taylor Book Award Gold Medal from the Association of Jewish Libraries, and A is for Abraham, was...

, American writer, poet
Robert C. Michelson
Robert C. Michelson
Robert C. Michelson is an American engineer and academic widely known for inventing the entomopter, a biologically inspired flapping-winged aerial robot, and for having established the International Aerial Robotics Competition. He has received degrees in electrical engineering from the Virginia...

, U.S. Researcher, progenitor of the field of aerial robotics
Robert A. Michelson, owner of Ramwood Ramwood Furniture in Birmingham, AL, award winning furniture designer

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