Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect."
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- Born in
- Morrison
- Educated at
- Oberlin CollegeMaquoketa Community High SchoolColumbia UniversityUniversity of Chicago
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Edison Medal🏆 Hughes Medal🏆 Comstock Prize in Physics🏆 Oersted Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Ogden Rood🎓 Albert A. Michelson
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Carl David Anderson📖 Charles Christian Lauritsen
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1868
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Birth1953
Died
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