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Robert Andrews Millikan

1868 - 1953

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Robert Andrews Millikan ( MIL-i-kuhn; March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect". Millikan graduated from Oberlin College in 1891 and obtained his doctorate at Columbia University in 1895. In 1896, he became an assistant at the University of Chicago, where he became a full professor in 1910. In 1909, Millikan began a series of experiments to determine the electric charge carried by a single electron. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Andrews Millikan is the 89th most popular physicist (down from 60th in 2019), the 260th most popular biography from United States (down from 215th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Physicist.

Robert Andrews Millikan was an American physicist who is most famous for his work on the photoelectric effect.

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Among physicists, Robert Andrews Millikan ranks 89 out of 851. Before him are Victor Francis Hess, Gustaf Dalén, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Johannes Stark, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, and Rudolf Clausius. After him are Georg Bednorz, C. F. Powell, Otto von Guericke, Carl David Anderson, Barry Barish, and Ben Roy Mottelson.

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Among people born in 1868, Robert Andrews Millikan ranks 11. Before him are Miklós Horthy, Fritz Haber, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, John Nance Garner, Abdulmejid II, and W. E. B. Du Bois. After him are Constantine I of Greece, Emanuel Lasker, Arnold Sommerfeld, James Connolly, Gichin Funakoshi, and Émile Bernard. Among people deceased in 1953, Robert Andrews Millikan ranks 8. Before him are Mary of Teck, Lavrentiy Beria, Sergei Prokofiev, Ibn Saud, Edwin Hubble, and Gerd von Rundstedt. After him are Guccio Gucci, Carol II of Romania, Klement Gottwald, Emmerich Kálmán, Eugene O'Neill, and Django Reinhardt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Andrews Millikan ranks 260 out of 20,380. Before him are Eli Whitney (1765), Sigourney Weaver (1949), Joseph Heller (1923), Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), John Holmes (1944), and Ben Affleck (1972). After him are Lee de Forest (1873), Johnny Depp (1963), John Quincy Adams (1767), Charles Taze Russell (1852), Dale Carnegie (1888), and O. J. Simpson (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert Andrews Millikan ranks 8. Before him are Charles H. Townes (1915), Philip Warren Anderson (1923), Richard Feynman (1918), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), and Luis Walter Alvarez (1911). After him are Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Donald A. Glaser (1926), and Clinton Davisson (1881).

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