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The first American Nobel Prize winner was Albert A. Michelson of Worcester, MA. Michelson was chairman of Clark University's Physics Department whose prize-winning work concerned the measurement of light. |
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Famous for the ‘Mill Girls,’ Lowell’s industrial workforce in the early to mid 1800s was largely made up of young women from local farming communities. |
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Robert Goddard, inventor of the first liquid fueled rocket, was born and lived much of his life in Worcester, Massachusetts and launched the first rocket fueled with liquid fuel from the neighboring town of Auburn. |
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