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Millikan, Robert Andrews
Millikan, Robert Andrews
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Name
Millikan, Robert Andrews
Date of birth
1868-03-22
Date of death
1953-12-19
Place of birth
United States, Illinois, Morrison
Place of death
United States, California, San Marino
Nationality
American
Occupation
Physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate 1923, President of California Institute of Technology 1921-1945.
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physicist
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Science Advisory Board, 1933
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