Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Millikan


Robert Millikan is an american physicist and educator. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. He also made important studies of cosmic rays (which he named), X rays, and physical and electric constants and wrote and lectured on the reconciliation of science and religion.

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