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    Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    professor at University of Southern California Medical School Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953), American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel...
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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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  • Haber: Haber Process for industrial production of ammonia 1909: Robert Andrews Millikan: conducts the oil drop experiment and determines the charge on...
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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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  • -), 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    People 25 (June 2): 109–114. David Goodstein. "In the Case of Robert Andrews Millikan" (PDF). American Scientist: 54–60. Archived (PDF) from the original...
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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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  • commercially successful plastics. In 1909, American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan – who had studied in Europe under Walther Nernst and Max Planck...
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    structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them" 1923 Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953)  United States "for his work on the elementary charge...
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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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  • 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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    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American writer (b. 1896) December 19 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868) December 23...
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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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    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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