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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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    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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  • (CGS), the corresponding quantity is 4.8032047...×10−10 statcoulombs. Robert A. Millikan and Harvey Fletcher's oil drop experiment first directly measured...
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  • removed Millikan's name from the award. List of physics awards "Lillian McDermott Medal". www.aapt.org. Retrieved 2023-05-28. "Robert A. Millikan Medal"...
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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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    Albert Einstein (redirect from A. Einstein)
    laureate Robert A. Millikan. His friendship with Millikan was "awkward", as Millikan "had a penchant for patriotic militarism", where Einstein was a pronounced...
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    Robert A. Millikan award reserved for "those who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to physics education". In 2009 Griffiths was named a Fellow...
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    : 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 wedding....
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  • electron. This was determined with a precision of better than 1% by Robert A. Millikan in his oil drop experiment in 1909. Together with the mass-to-charge ratio...
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  • have included the speed of light calculator A. A. Michelson, elementary charge calculator Robert A. Millikan, discoverer of the Compton Effect Arthur H...
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    McGraw-Hill. p. 4. ohm's law current proportional voltage resistance. Robert A. Millikan and E. S. Bishop (1917). Elements of Electricity. American Technical...
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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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  • 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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    American scientist like Robert A. Millikan or Arthur Compton would be invited to attend. Lawrence was asked to give a presentation on the cyclotron. Lawrence's...
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  • Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Michael I. Pupin, Robert A. Millikan (Nobel Prize 1923), and Vannevar Bush. A complete and authoritative list is published...
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    Edison National Mass Media Awards. (1991) Herbert received the annual Robert A. Millikan Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for...
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    Hyde Park, Chicago (category Articles using NRISref without a reference number)
    physicist, 1907 Nobel Prize laureate Robert Andrews Millikan – physicist, 1923 Nobel Prize laureate, Robert A. Millikan House is National Historic Landmark...
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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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    member of any U.S. Cabinet — Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Robert A. Millikan: Nobel laureate; measured the elementary electric charge — Graduate...
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  • Jason Bell (American football) (category Millikan High School alumni)
    Geraldine Bell. He attended Robert A. Millikan High School, where he played quarterback, wide receiver and cornerback. As a senior, he posted 70 tackles...
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    Josiah Willard Gibbs (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    chemistry during the first half of the 20th century. According to Robert A. Millikan, in pure science, Gibbs "did for statistical mechanics and thermodynamics...
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    Inazo, Marie Curie, Gonzague de Reynold, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, and Robert A. Millikan among its members. The committee was the predecessor to UNESCO, and...
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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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    engineering at Caltech (B.S., 1927; Ph.D., 1930). Under the supervision of Robert A. Millikan, he began investigations into cosmic rays during the course of which...
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    Bergson, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Robert A. Millikan, and Gonzague de Reynold among its members (being thus a small commission of the League of Nations...
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    Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015. Friedman, Robert Marc (2001). The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science...
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    its outdoor grounds in movies such as Coach Carter, among others. Robert A. Millikan High School has also lent its classrooms and hallways to films such...
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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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