A little about Robert A. Millikan:

 

v   He was born March 22, 1868 in Morrison, Ill.

v   He attended Maquoketa High School (Iowa).

v   He then entered Oberlin College (Ohio).

v   In 1893 he obtained his Masters Degree, and then in 1895 received his PhD. from Columbia University.

v   He then spent a year in Germany at the University of Berlin, and then was asked to become an assistant at newly established Ryerson Laboratory at the University of Chicago in 1896.

v   He won the Nobel Peace Prize for Physics in 1923.

v   He died December 19, 1953 in San Marino, California.

 

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