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...

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)...

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,...

Robert A. Millikan Senior High School is a high school in Long Beach, California, United States, administered by the Long Beach Unified School District...

of Robert Andrews Millikan Glenn Allan Millikan (1906–1947), American physiologist, inventor of Millikan oximeter and son of Robert Andrews Millikan Joe...

death, he was credited with collaborating with his doctoral advisor, Robert Millikan, on the Nobel-prize winning oil drop experiment which first determined...

work disproved the view, advocated among others by the Nobel laureate Robert Millikan, that cosmic rays were composed of high-energy photons. Lemaître and...

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...

Oregon in 1865. Eleven Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Unitarians: Robert Millikan and John Bardeen (twice) in physics; Emily Green Balch, Albert Schweitzer...

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...

California Institute of Technology In office 1946–1969 Preceded by Robert Millikan Succeeded by Harold Brown Personal details Born (1901-09-21)September...

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...

gravitational mass are one and the same. Oil-drop experiment (1909): Robert Millikan demonstrates that electric charge occurs as quanta (whole units). Geiger–Marsden...

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...

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....

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...

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...

when Michael Faraday published his works on electrolysis. In 1910, Robert Millikan obtained the first measurement of the charge on an electron, −e. The...

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...

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...

when Michael Faraday published his works on electrolysis. In 1910, Robert Millikan with the help of Harvey Fletcher obtained the first measurement of...

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...

McGilligan, in or around March 1945, Hitchcock and Hecht consulted Robert Millikan of the California Institute of Technology about the development of...

Prominent Americans Pearl Buck, Louis Fischer, Albert Einstein and Robert Millikan give their endorsement to the bill. President Franklin D. Roosevelt...

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...

founder of Google China Kai-Fu Lee; scientists Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Millikan, Helium–neon laser inventor Ali Javan and Mihajlo Pupin; chief-engineer...

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...

World War II officer Samuel Freeman Miller, Supreme Court justice Robert Millikan, physicist Jason Momoa, § actor Ted Monachino, football coach Michelle...

were Robert Millikan and Arthur Compton, both of whom had won the Nobel prize in physics, in 1923 and 1927, respectively. During the 1920s, Millikan, who...

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...