Robert Millikan

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.

Awards: Comstock Prize in Physics, Edison Medal, Nobel Prize in Physics, Hughes Medal, Faraday Lectureship Prize, Matteucci Medal, ASME Medal, Franklin Medal, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris, Oersted Medal Education: Columbia University, Oberlin College, University of Chicago, Maquoketa Community High School

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