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Name: Robert Andrews Millikan
Birth Date: March 22, 1868
Death Date: December 19, 1953
Place of Birth: Morrison, Illinois, United States
Place of Death: Pasadena, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist

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Biography of Robert Andrews Millikan
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Millikan was born in Morrison, Illinois, on March 22, 1868. He grew up in a number of communities in the Mississippi River region, leading a largely rural life. At the age of fourteen, he took a job in a barrelhead factory at wages of one dollar a day....
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Biography of Robert A. Millikan
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Robert A. Millikan vaulted from obscurity to international fame on the strength of his classic experiment designed to measure the charge on the electron. His "oil-drop" method for determining the electron charge earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for...
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Biography of Robert Andrews Millikan
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The American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953) measured the charge of the electron, proved the validity of Albert Einstein's photoelectric effect equation, and carried out pioneering cosmic-ray experiments. The second son of a...


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1868-1953 American Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, in his famous oildrop experiment of 1910, measured the charge of the electron. In another important experiment, he verified Einstein's equation for the photoelectric effect and determined the...


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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Millikan one of six chosen to serve on team reworking building codes.(Neighbor)
01/19/2001: 426 words, approx. 1 pages
Byline: Kara Spak In 1979, Mike Millikan, ready to stake his future with Elgin's brass, applied to be a police dispatcher in the city. He didn't get the job. "They had a few other jobs, including housing inspector," Millikan...
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