Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for the measurement...
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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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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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experiment commonly attributed to his advisor and collaborator, Robert Andrews Millikan. Millikan took sole credit, in return for Fletcher claiming full authorship...
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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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Robert Rowe Gilruth (October 8, 1913 – August 17, 2000) was an American aerospace engineer and an aviation/space pioneer who was the first director of...
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PhD degree in physics under supervision of Nobel Prize laureate Robert Andrews Millikan at California Institute of Technology in 1930. Later he went back...
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Robert Serber (March 14, 1909 – June 1, 1997) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic...
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courses. Millikan High School is named after the Nobel Prize winner Robert Andrews Millikan. The choral program consists of six courses: Choraleers Singers...
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prestigious award. Well-known recipients include Nobel laureates Robert Andrews Millikan, Edward M. Purcell, Richard Feynman, Isidor I. Rabi, Norman F....
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John Robert Schrieffer (/ˈʃriːfər/; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) was an American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of...
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Ebenezer Cunningham derived the correction factor in 1910 and with Robert Andrews Millikan, verified the correction in the same year. C = 1 + 2 λ d ( A 1...
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medicine." The word oximeter was introduced by Millikan. Millikan, son of physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, studied at the Harvard University and the University...
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his predictions had been confirmed by the experimental work of Robert Andrews Millikan. The Nobel committee awarded the prize for his work on the photo-electric...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; /ˈɒpənhaɪmər/ OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist...
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of electricity: a practical discussion of the fundamental laws and ... by Robert Andrews Millikan, Edwin Sherwood Bishop, American Technical Society...
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professor at University of Southern California Medical School Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953), American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel...
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Hill; Otto Fritz Meyerhof Jacinto Benavente Fridtjof Nansen 1923 Robert Andrews Millikan Fritz Pregl Frederick Banting; John Macleod W. B. Yeats None 1924...
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Carlson 1922: Frederick A. Halsey 1923: John R. Freeman 1926: Robert Andrews Millikan 1927: Wilfred Lewis 1928: Julian Kennedy 1930: W. L. R. Emmet 1931:...
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psychologist best known for creating the Stanford-Binet test of IQ); Robert Andrews Millikan (Chair of the Executive Council of Caltech); William B. Munro (a...
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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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-), Protons, Photons, Neutrons, Mesotrons and Cosmic Rays" By Robert Andrews Millikan. Revised edition. Pp. x+642. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press;...
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This design was advanced by E. L. Rice and taken seriously by Robert Andrews Millikan and the National Research Council; the project ultimately proved...
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(1859–1906) William Henry Bragg (1862–1942) Marie Curie (1867–1934) Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953) Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) Lise Meitner (1878–1968)...
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the Second World War began. Wu and Yuan were married at the home of Robert Millikan, Yuan's academic supervisor and the President of Caltech, on May 30...
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15, 1928–1929, p. 1486 The Religious Affiliation of Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan. adherents.com "Medicine: Science Serves God," Time, June 4, 1923...
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Carlson 1922: Frederick A. Halsey 1923: John R. Freeman 1926: Robert Andrews Millikan 1927: Wilfred Lewis 1928: Julian Kennedy 1930: W. L. R. Emmet 1931:...
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invents the first practical fathometer. Nobel Prizes Physics: Robert Andrews Millikan Chemistry: Fritz Pregl Medicine: Frederick Banting and John Macleod...
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atmosphere from outer space, and his discovery was confirmed by Robert Andrews Millikan in 1925, who gave the radiation the name "cosmic rays". Hess's...
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to describe the cooperative behavior of hemoglobin in collaboration with Robert G. Shulman. Subsequently he became a faculty member at University of California...
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