Definition of Millikan

1. Noun. United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953).

Exact synonyms: Robert Andrews Millikan
Generic synonyms: Physicist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Millikan

Millean
Millennium Dome
Miller
Miller's chemicoparasitic theory
Miller-Abbott tube
Miller of Dee
Miller of the Dee
Miller syndrome
Millerchip
Millerian
Millerite
Millerites
Millian
Millicent
Millie
Millikan (current term)
Millikanian
Millipore filter
Millner needle
Millon
Millon's reagent
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory test
Millon clinical multiaxial inventory
Millon reaction
Mills
Mills Mess
Mills bomb
Millwall
Milly

Literary usage of Millikan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Indiana University, 1820-1920: Centennial Memorial Volume by Indiana University (1921)
"Professor Millikan was awarded the Comstock prize for research in electricity by ... Professor Millikan was the first to succeed in isolating an electron. ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Societyby American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1901)
"A very interesting paper, followed by a discussion, was given by Dr. RA Millikan, of the Department of Physics, of the University of Chicago. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1919)
"BY ROBERT A. Millikan, PH.D., Sc.D. (Read April 26, 1919.) There is no more interesting illustration of the application of new scientific methods to warfare ..."

4. The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum by George Kean Sweetnam (2000)
"While Ira Bowen was still a graduate student of Robert Millikan, he and Millikan pursued hot-spark vacuum spectroscopy, which was no longer Theodore Lyman's ..."

5. Hazzard's History of Henry County, Indiana, 1822-1906 by George Hazzard (1906)
"One son, Harry Boyd Millikan, blessed this union, who as a member of the 27th Battery, Indiana Volunteers—old Battery A, of Indianapolis—under Captain ..."

6. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1917)
"By AIEE MODERN PHYSICS BY RA Millikan TV/lY POSITION-tonight is somewhat reminiscent of a story A VI that my father used to be fond of telling of a Scotch ..."

7. Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and by Jacob Piatt Dunn, George William Harrison Kemper (1919)
"John R. Millikan died September 12, 1895, survived by his wife until June ... John R. Millikan and wife had eight children. Frank M. Millikan, son of John ..."

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