“Robert A. Millikan” (founder of Cal Tech), c. 1940’s, vintage silver print, 11 x 14

b. March 22, 1868, Morrison, Ill.,--d.Dec. 19, 1953, San Marino, Calif., American physicist honoured with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923.

In 1921 Millikan left the University of Chicago to become director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
As chairman of the executive council from 1921 until his retirement in 1945, Millikan turned that school into one of the leading research institutions in the United States.

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