The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 by Nobel Prize Outreach by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Official institutional award record from Nobel Prize Outreach. The award year is 1909; web publication date unestablished. Cited: joint laureates and motivation.
Institutional archive record from Nobel Prize Outreach; not authored by its nominee. Cited fields: life years, affiliation and award. Web publication date unestablished.
Light Waves and Their Uses by Albert Abraham Michelson by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
By Albert Abraham Michelson. University of Chicago Press, 1903; lectures 1899; preface October 1902. Editor: C. R. Mann.
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Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
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  1. topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
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    This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
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    Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
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