Robert Andrew Millikan

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Robert Andrew Millikan

Robert Andrew Millikan

     In 1909 Robert Andrew Millikan set up an apparatus to measure the charge
of an electron  within an accuracy range of 3%.  In 1913 he came out with a
value of the electrical charge that would serve the world of science for a
generation.
     Young Millikan had a childhood like most others: he had no idea what his
profession would be.  Once he recalled trying to jump from a rowboat to a dock,
falling in the water, and almost drowning.  Here he had his first account with
physics - Newton’s Third Law of Motion: "For every action there is an equal and
opposite reaction".  Even in High School Physics courses Millikan was not so
spirited, which may have had a little to do with his teacher’s habit of spending
the summers using a divining rod to find water.  After Millikan graduated from
Maquoketa High he was accepted into Oberlin College.  Robert actually began his
physics career when he taught an elementary course at the request of his Greek
professor during his sophomore year.  He then transferred to Columbia University
from which he graduated in 1893 as the only student graduate in physics.  After
this accomplishment Millikan travelled to Germany to study with such professors
Planck and others.  When this period was on his resume Millikan was offered a
position in the Physics department at the University of Chicago and Millikan
took it.  After teaching for a period Millikan decided that physics could only
be taught properly through the practice of experimentation and getting your
hands in it just as many other things are.  Thus, he began writing better
textbooks for the University of Chicago, "In fact he spent the morning of...

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