Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for the measurement...
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Oil drop experiment (redirect from Millikan oil drop experiment)
The oil drop experiment was performed by Robert A. Millikan and Harvey Fletcher in 1909 to measure the elementary electric charge (the charge of the electron)...
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of Robert Andrews Millikan Glenn Allan Millikan (1906–1947), American physiologist, inventor of Millikan oximeter and son of Robert Andrews Millikan Joe...
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Lillian McDermott Medal (redirect from Robert A. Millikan award)
removed Millikan's name from the award. List of physics awards "Lillian McDermott Medal". www.aapt.org. Retrieved 2023-05-28. "Robert A. Millikan Medal"...
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Robert A. Millikan Senior High School is a high school in Long Beach, California, United States, administered by the Long Beach Unified School District...
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scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes, and Robert Andrews Millikan in the early 20th century. The vocational and preparatory schools...
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The Robert A. Millikan House is a historic house at 5605 South Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. Built about 1907...
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Elementary charge (section As a unit)
(CGS), the corresponding quantity is 4.8032047...×10−10 statcoulombs. Robert A. Millikan and Harvey Fletcher's oil drop experiment first directly measured...
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Robert A. Millikan award reserved for "those who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to physics education". In 2009 Griffiths was named a Fellow...
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: 259 They were married at the home of Yuan's advisor Robert A. Millikan and his wife, with a Caltech instructor and priest officiating the wedding....
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Edison National Mass Media Awards. (1991) Herbert received the annual Robert A. Millikan Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for...
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Albert Einstein (redirect from A. Einstein)
laureate Robert A. Millikan. His friendship with Millikan was awkward, as Millikan had a penchant for patriotic militarism, where Einstein was a pronounced...
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McGraw-Hill. p. 4. ohm's law current proportional voltage resistance. Robert A. Millikan and E. S. Bishop (1917). Elements of Electricity. American Technical...
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death, he was credited with collaborating with his doctoral advisor, Robert Millikan, on the Nobel-prize winning oil drop experiment which first determined...
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elementary charge to be about 3.4×10−10 esu (1.3×10−19 C). In 1909 Robert A. Millikan provided a more accurate measurement of 1.5924×10−19 C, only 0.6% off the...
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electron. This was determined with a precision of better than 1% by Robert A. Millikan in his oil drop experiment in 1909. Together with the mass-to-charge ratio...
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Hyde Park, Chicago (category Articles using NRISref without a reference number)
physicist, 1907 Nobel Prize laureate Robert Andrews Millikan – physicist, 1923 Nobel Prize laureate, Robert A. Millikan House is National Historic Landmark...
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by this method. While at Chicago, he took a course under the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert A. Millikan, which exposed him to the old quantum theory...
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the Robert A. Millikan Medal, its highest recognition, created to honor the life and ideals of the school's co-founder, Robert Andrews Millikan. In December...
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Jason Bell (American football) (category Millikan High School alumni)
Geraldine Bell. He attended Robert A. Millikan High School, where he played quarterback, wide receiver and cornerback. As a senior, he posted 70 tackles...
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Josiah Willard Gibbs (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
chemistry during the first half of the 20th century. According to Robert A. Millikan, in pure science, Gibbs "did for statistical mechanics and thermodynamics...
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teaching of physics, he received the Robert A. Millikan Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers. Reif was a fellow of the American Physical...
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Columbia University (redirect from Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art)
member of any U.S. Cabinet — Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Robert A. Millikan: Nobel laureate; measured the elementary electric charge — Graduate...
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gravity to guests such as the physicist and Nobel laureate, Robert A. Millikan. Millikan told the first-year student his ideas were impossible and advised...
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Albert Allen Bartlett (redirect from Albert A. Bartlett)
faculty council at the university. He won the Robert A. Millikan award. Bartlett viewed sustainable growth as a contradiction. His view was that modest percentage...
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engineering at Caltech (B.S., 1927; Ph.D., 1930). Under the supervision of Robert A. Millikan, he began investigations into cosmic rays during the course of which...
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have included the speed of light calculator A. A. Michelson, elementary charge calculator Robert A. Millikan, discoverer of the Compton Effect Arthur H...
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Inazo, Marie Curie, Gonzague de Reynold, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, and Robert A. Millikan among its members. The committee was the predecessor to UNESCO, and...
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Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Michael I. Pupin, Robert A. Millikan (Nobel Prize 1923), and Vannevar Bush. A complete and authoritative list is published...
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and quantum mechanics Hilborn, Robert C. (1 December 1997). "David J. Griffiths: Recipient of the Robert A. Millikan Medal". American Journal of Physics...
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