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Millikan in 1891. Robert Andrews Millikan was born on March 22, 1868, in Morrison, Illinois. [6] He went to high school in Maquoketa, Iowa and received a bachelor's degree in the classics from Oberlin College in 1891 and his doctorate in physics from Columbia University in 1895 [11] – he was the first to earn a Ph.D. from that department.
Robert A. Millikan Harvey Fletcher (September 11, 1884 – July 23, 1981) was an American physicist . [ 1 ] Known as the "father of stereophonic sound ", he is credited with the invention of the 2-A audiometer [ 2 ] and an early electronic hearing aid .
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). [1] [2] The experiment took place in the Ryerson Physical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. [3] [4] [5] Millikan received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923. [6]
The 1923 prize went to Robert Millikan "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect". Millikan might have won in 1920 but for Felix Ehrenhaft's incorrect claim to have measured a smaller charge. Some controversy, however, still seems to linger over Millikan's oil-drop procedure and experimental ...
Anderson was born in New York City, the son of Swedish immigrants.He studied physics and 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 he encountered unexpected particle tracks in his (modern versions now commonly referred to as an Anderson) cloud chamber photographs that he ...
Robert Millikan (B.A. 1891), Nobel laureate (Physics, 1923) "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect" [3] Roger Wolcott Sperry (B.A. English 1935, M.A. psychology 1937), neurobiologist who studied split-brain research, Nobel laureate (Medicine, 1981), "for his discoveries concerning the functional ...
The photoelectric effect: Einstein explained this in 1905 (and later received a Nobel prize for it) using the concept of photons, particles of light with quantized energy. Robert Millikan's oil-drop experiment, which showed that electric charge occurs as quanta (whole units). (1909)
Joe Millikan (born 1950), American racecar driver; Max Millikan (1913–1969), American economist; Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953), American Nobel Prize–winning physicist Millikan oil drop experiment; Ruth Millikan (born 1933), American philosopher of biology, psychology, and language; Edward E. Simmons (1911–2004), aka "Millikan Man"