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    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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    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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    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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    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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    electron's charge was more carefully measured by the American physicists Robert Millikan and Harvey Fletcher in their oil-drop experiment of 1909, the results...
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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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    work disproved the view, advocated among others by the Nobel laureate Robert Millikan, that cosmic rays were composed of high-energy photons. Lemaître and...
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  • Oregon in 1865. Eleven Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Unitarians: Robert Millikan and John Bardeen (twice) in physics; Emily Green Balch, Albert Schweitzer...
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  • for International Studies. Millikan was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He was a son of the physicist Robert Millikan. He started his studies at...
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  • gravitational mass are one and the same. Oil-drop experiment (1909): Robert Millikan demonstrates that electric charge occurs as quanta (whole units). Geiger–Marsden...
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    of the National Research Council along with George Ellery Hale and Robert Millikan. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known...
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    California Institute of Technology In office 1946–1969 Preceded by Robert Millikan Succeeded by Harold Brown Personal details Born (1901-09-21)September...
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    temporary period before his return to the UK. In 1941, he wrote to Robert Millikan that he hoped that the war would be over soon, so that "we can all...
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    went to work at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1927 after Robert Millikan offered him a position as a research assistant there, where he began...
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    married in 1942.: 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...
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    when Michael Faraday published his works on electrolysis. In 1910, Robert Millikan with the help of Harvey Fletcher obtained the first measurement of...
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  • when Michael Faraday published his works on electrolysis. In 1910, Robert Millikan obtained the first measurement of the charge on an electron, −e. The...
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  • in the opposite order. Many experiments by J. J. Thomson,: I:361  Robert Millikan,: I:89  and Charles Wilson: I:4  among others had shown that free electrons...
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    McGilligan, in or around March 1945, Hitchcock and Hecht consulted Robert Millikan of the California Institute of Technology about the development of...
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    sound, went on to carry out the now famous oil-drop experiment with Robert Millikan, and was later Founding Dean of the BYU College of Engineering. H....
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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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    the FBI for several months after he and Hecht discussed uranium with Robert Millikan at Caltech in mid-1945. In any event, the dropping of the atomic bomb...
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    founder of Google China Kai-Fu Lee; scientists Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Millikan, Helium–neon laser inventor Ali Javan and Mihajlo Pupin; chief-engineer...
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    counteract the effects of gravity. It was used, for instance, in Robert Millikan's oil drop experiment and is used to suspend the gyroscopes in Gravity...
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    Prominent Americans Pearl Buck, Louis Fischer, Albert Einstein and Robert Millikan give their endorsement to the bill. President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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    World War II officer Samuel Freeman Miller, Supreme Court justice Robert Millikan, physicist Jason Momoa, § actor Ted Monachino, football coach Michelle...
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    by Robert Millikan who made measurements of ionization due to cosmic rays from deep under water to high altitudes and around the globe. Millikan believed...
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  • carefully including a measurement of the Planck constant in 1916 by Robert Millikan. When I conceived the first basic ideas of wave mechanics in 1923–1924...
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  • arrived in the opposite order. Many experiments by J. J. Thompson, Robert Millikan, and Charles Wilson, among others, had shown that free electrons had...
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