Quote of the day
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine
Like quiet night;
Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine
Through Peace to Light.
Robert Andrews Millikan
Born: March 22, 1868
Died: December 19, 1953 (aged 85)
Bio: Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
Known for:
- Evolution in science and religion (1927)
- Practical Physics (1920)
- Electrons (+ and -), Protons, Photons, Neutrons, Mesotrons, and Cosmic Rays (1947)
- Time, Matter, and Values (1932)