Millikan scientist biography books
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(cover by Jeremy Kargon)
The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science by Robert H. Kargon (59,000 words, 20 illustrations)
“I do not consider myself to be Robert Millikan’s biographer. This book is not a full record of Millikan’s life or even of his scientific career. It is an essay, very selective, on themes that are illustrated and illuminated by Millikan’s life in American science. It is, as well, a portrait of the development of a scientist...
Robert Millikan was among the most famous of American scientists; to the public of the 1920s, Millikan represented science. The first American-born physicist to win the Nobel Prize, Millikan was a leader in the application of scientific research to military problems during World War inom and a guiding force in the rise of the California Institute of Technology to a preeminent place in American scientific education and research. His life
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The Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan
An American experimental physicist, Robert Millikan graduated from Oberlin College in 1891 and received his M.A. there in 1893. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1895. One year later, Millikan joined the faculty at the University of Chicago and remained there until 1921, with the exception of the time he spent in government and military service during World War I. From Chicago Millikan went to the California Institute of Technology, where he spent the rest of his career. Millikan made the first determination of the charge of the electron and of Planck's constant. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics for these contributions. The determination of the charge on the electron proved experimentally that electrons are particles of electricity. Millikan accomplished this feat by designing an experiment studying the fall of oil droplets in an electric field. He conjectured that the droplets would take up integral multiple
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Robert Andrews Millikan
American physicist (1868–1953)
This article is about the Nobel laureate physicist. For Nobel laureate in chemistry, see Robert S. Mulliken.
Robert Andrews Millikan | |
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Millikan in 1923 | |
| In office 1920–1946 | |
| Succeeded by | Lee Alvin DuBridge |
| Born | (1868-03-22)March 22, 1868 Morrison, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | December 19, 1953(1953-12-19) (aged 85) San Marino, California, U.S. |
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| Spouse | Greta Blanchard (m. 1902; died 1953) |
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| Honors | Medal for Merit (1949)[3] |
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| Fields | Physics |
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| Thesis | On the polarization of light emitted from the surfaces of incandescent solids and liquids. (1895) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ogden Rood |
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| Allegiance | United States |
| Service / branch | United States Army[2] |
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