Robert Andrews Millikan
1868 – 1953 · aged 85
American physicist (1868–1953)
- Born
- 22 Mar 1868 · Morrison
- Died
- 19 Dec 1953 · San Marino
Life timeline
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- 22 Mar 1868BornBorn in Morrison
- 1913AwardComstock Prize in Physics
- 1922AwardEdison Medal
- 1923AwardHughes Medal
- 1923AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 1924AwardFaraday Lectureship Prize
- 1925AwardMatteucci Medal
- 1926AwardASME Medal
- 1937AwardFranklin Medal
- 1939AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
- 1940AwardOersted Medal
- 1944AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
- 19 Dec 1953DiedDied in San Marino
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Major world events during their lifetime (1868 – 1953).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
Biography
Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) 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."
As Chairman of the Executive Council of Caltech (the school's governing body at the time) from 1921 to 1945, Millikan helped to turn the school into one of the leading research institutions in the United States. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, from 1921 to 1953.
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