Robert Andrews Millikan - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1923
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Robert Andrews Millikan

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1923
for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
3/22/1868
place of birth
Morrison
date of death
12/19/1953
place of death
San Marino
Lived
85 years

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member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 7/15/1948
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1932
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1914
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1915
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 10/28/1923
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 12/6/1924
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 12/7/1925
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
educated at
  • Maquoketa Community High School
  • Oberlin College
  • Columbia University
  • University of Chicago
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
doctoral student
  • William Ross Ham
  • Donald Holt Loughridge
  • Russell Morley Otis
  • Russell Watson Raitt
  • Richard M. Sutton
  • Charles Lauritsen
  • Harvey Fletcher
  • Bill Pickering
  • Carl David Anderson
  • Ralph A. Sawyer
  • Leonard Benedict Loeb
employer
  • University of Chicago
  • California Institute of Technology
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