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Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
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]
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 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 ...
Robert Millikan "for his determination of the electronic charge and of other physical constants" [27] 1924: not awarded — — 1925: Frank Edward Smith "for his determination of fundamental electrical units and for researches in technical electricity" [28] 1926: Henry Jackson
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 ...
As a result of this development, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1966. Mulliken became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1936, the youngest member in the organization's history at the time. [3] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1940 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965.
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 ...