Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
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)