Robert Millikan by Erin Burke https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923! en-us 2020-11-05 18:31:03 UTC 2020-11-05 19:31:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Born on March 22, 1868, in Morrison, Illinois. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895308014 2020-11-05 18:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895308014 Died on December 19, 1953, in San Marino, California. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895336274 2020-11-05 18:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895336274 He came up with the oil-drop experiment. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895348820 2020-11-05 18:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895348820 Oil-drop experiment: a straightforward method of measuring the minute electric charge that is present on many of the droplets in an oil mist. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895351525 2020-11-05 18:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895351525 Millikan found the quantity of the electron charge and mass. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895374668 2020-11-05 18:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895374668 Millikan's values for electron charge and mass are similar to those accepted today. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895378493 2020-11-05 18:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895378493 Started experimenting with measuring the charged droplet of water in a electric field. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895401483 2020-11-05 18:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895401483 Electron is the smallest subatomic particle. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895410587 2020-11-05 18:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895410587 Graduated from Oberlin College in 1891. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895419247 2020-11-05 18:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895419247 Got his doctorate at Columbia University in 1895. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895421295 2020-11-05 18:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895421295 Became a professor at University of Chicago in 1910. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895428154 2020-11-05 18:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895428154 His full name is Robert Andrews Millikan. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895435873 2020-11-05 19:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895435873 A American physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895439493 2020-11-05 19:00:49 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895439493 Was honored the Nobel Prize for his study of the elementary electronic charge and the photoelectric effect. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895442464 2020-11-05 19:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895442464 He retired from chairman of the executive council of Caltech in 1945. eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895450675 2020-11-05 19:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895450675 Citation: eburke23 https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895552046 The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Robert Millikan." Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, 18 Mar. 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Millikan.]]> 2020-11-05 19:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/eburke23/e09xzie88m1typ7t/wish/895552046