Robert Millikan by Stephanie Strike https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb Made with wonder en-us 2020-11-04 15:32:35 UTC 2020-11-09 21:57:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Robert Andrews Millikan sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/890416358 2020-11-04 15:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/890416358 Date of Birth sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/902588171 March 22, 1868]]> 2020-11-09 02:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/902588171 Death sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/902588700 December 19, 1953]]> 2020-11-09 02:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/902588700 Education sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/902590967 1891: graduated from Oberlin College ]]> 2020-11-09 02:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/902590967 First Jobs sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/902595883 1896: Assistant at University of Chicago 

]]> 2020-11-09 02:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/902595883 Won the Nobel Prize in 1923... sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906243850 for his study of the elementary electronic charge and the photoelectric effect]]> 2020-11-09 21:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906243850 Beginning experiments sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906261786 1909: series of experiments to find the electric charge in an electron

]]> 2020-11-09 21:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906261786 Continues experimenting... sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906264172 1910: Gets more precise with the oil drop experiment
(replaced the water with oil)]]> 2020-11-09 21:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906264172 Obtained exact value of Planck's constant sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906267885 2020-11-09 21:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906267885 1921 - Becomes director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at Caltech sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906272521 2020-11-09 21:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906272521 At Caltech he proved radiation is indeed of extraterrestrial origin sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906275666 Named "Cosmic rays"]]> 2020-11-09 21:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906275666 Becomes chairman of the executive council of Caltech sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906278193 1921 - 1945]]> 2020-11-09 21:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906278193 Retires in 1945 sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906279186 2020-11-09 21:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906279186 Citations: sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906281428 The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Robert Millikan." Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, 18 Mar. 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Millikan.]]> 2020-11-09 21:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906281428 Doctorate sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906287698 1895: Received doctorate at Columbia University]]> 2020-11-09 21:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906287698 Teaching sstrike23 https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906291761 1910: Full professor]]> 2020-11-09 21:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sstrike23/v3bpqwzy0oo3yvqb/wish/906291761