Robert Andrews Millikan
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| Born | Robert Andrews Millikan 22 Mairch 1868 Morrison, Illinois, U.S. |
| Dee'd | 19 December 1953 (aged 85) San Marino, Californie, U.S. |
| Naitionality | Unitit States |
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| Hauf-marrae(s) | Greta née Blanchard |
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| Fields | Pheesics |
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| Thesis | On the polarization of light emitted from the surfaces of incandescent solids and liquids. (1895) |
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| Other academic advisors | Mihajlo Pupin Albert A. Michelson Walther Nernst |
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| Service/branch | Unitit States Airmy[4] |
| Years o service | 1917–1918 |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Unit | Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps |
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Robert Andrews Millikan (Mairch 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) wis an American experimental pheesicist honoured wi the Nobel Prize for Pheesics in 1923 for the meisurment o the elementar electronic chairge an for his wirk on the photoelectric effect. He wis a Congregationalist.[5][6]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Comstock Prize in Physics". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 Februar 2011.
- ↑ "Millikan, son, aide get medals of merit". New York Times. 22 Mairch 1949. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ Physics Tree profile Robert A Millikan
- ↑ Bates, Charles C. & Fuller, John F. (1 Julie 1986). "Chapter 2: The Rebirth of Military Meteorology". America's Weather Warriors, 1814–1985. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 17–20. ISBN 978-0890962404.
- ↑ Millikan, Robert Andrews. ukwhoswho.com. Who Was Who. 1920-1929. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. 1929. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U240788.
- ↑ The Religious Affiliation of Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan. adherents.com
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