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Again last week Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan reiterated that the universe is constantly being regenerated. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, and others, argue that it is blowing into wavy smithereens.
To honest Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, a fact is a fact. Last week he recognized a new one. Although it fortified the cosmic ray theory of Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, who had become Dr. Millikan's ...
IT is stated by Science Service, of Washington, D.C., that a Roosevelt Medal for achievement in science has been presented to Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory ...
Robert Millikan’s oil-drop experiment to measure the charge of an electron is considered one of the most beautiful tests in the history of physics. Striving for more accuracy, it was on February ...
Robert A. Millikan High School is named after the educator and Nobel Prize winner who became the first person to earn a Ph.D. in physics at Columbia University. Born on March 22, 1868, in Morrison ...
“Robert Millikan is the patron saint of Caltech,” Chwe acknowledges, though he says that younger faculty members and undergraduates seem to be less invested in continuing to honor him than others.
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will honor David Baltimore, Ph.D., president emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology ...
Caltech began as Throop College of Technology in 1891. Under the direction of Nobel Prize physicist Robert Andrews Millikan and the newly formed Research Council, Caltech was created in 1921.
Millikan’s experiment has, since the publication of these adjustments, come into disrepute. While no one can dispute that Millikan’s predictions were accurate, and that the experiment works ...