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The M-M experiment did not measure the speed of light, and was not designed to do that (even though Michelson won the Nobel Prize for his earlier work on that subject); and the number 17 Nobelists is documented in the article, below.
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Case Western Reserve University is a member of the [[Association of American Universities]] and is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref name="Carnegie_classification">{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications – Institution Profile |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=201645 |access-date=March 30, 2020 |publisher=Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924023810/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=201645 |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to the [[National Science Foundation]], in 2019 the university had [[research and development]] (R&D) expenditures of $439 million, ranking it 20th among private institutions and 58th in the nation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NSF Rankings by total R&D expenditures |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd}}</ref>
 
Seventeen [[#Nobel laureates|Nobel laureates]] are numbered among Case Western Reserve faculty or alumni, or one of its predecessors.<ref>See name="CaseNobelNotable People">{{cite websection |date=2010-03-17in |title=Nobelthis Prize winners |url=http://wwwarticle.case.edu/corporate/nobellaureates.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613134925/http://www.case.edu/corporate/nobellaureates.html |archive-date=June 13, 2010 |access-date=2010-03-17 |publisher=CWRU}}</ref> The [[Michelson–Morley experiment]] measuringdisproving the speedexistence of lightthe "luminiferous aether" was conducted at Case Western in 1887, and [[Albert A. Michelson]] became the first American to win the [[Nobel Prize]] in a science.
 
==History==