Milikan foi o primeiro cientista a determinar o valor da carga do elétron através da experiência da gota de óleo, que por meio de gotículas de óleo o possibilitou chegar a este valor até hoje adotado.[1] Recebeu o Nobel de Física de 1923, por trabalhos sobre cargas elétricas elementares e o efeito fotoeléctrico.[2] Como presidente do Conselho Executivo do Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia (o órgão dirigente da escola na época) de 1921 até sua aposentadoria em 1945, Millikan ajudou a transformar a escola em uma das principais instituições de pesquisa nos Estados Unidos.[3][4] Ele também atuou no conselho de curadores do Science Service, atualmente conhecido como Society for Science & the Public, de 1921 a 1953.
Publicações
Laboratory course in physics for secondary schools, 1906
Millikan, R A (1950). The Autobiography of Robert Millikan
Millikan, Robert Andrews (1917). The Electron: Its Isolation and Measurements and the Determination of Some of its Properties. The University of Chicago Press.
Nobel Lectures, "Robert A. Millikan – Nobel Biography". Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam.
Segerstråle, U (1995) Good to the last drop? Millikan stories as "canned" pedagogy, Science and Engineering Ethics vol 1, pp197–214
Kargon, Robert H (1977). «The Conservative Mode: Robert A. Millikan and the Twentieth-Century Revolution in Physics». Isis. 68 (4): 509–526. JSTOR230006. doi:10.1086/351871
Kargon, Robert H (1982). The rise of Robert Millikan: portrait of a life in American science. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Robert Andrews Millikan em 1891
Referências
↑NUNES, Djalma (1997). Física: volume único. São Paulo.: Editora Ática. p. 327
↑Agarwal, Arun (2008). Nobel Prize Winners in Physics. [S.l.]: APH Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 8176487430
1909: Elihu Thomson·1910: Frank Julian Sprague·1911: George Westinghouse·1912: William Stanley·1913: Charles Francis Brush·1914: Alexander Graham Bell·1915: Não concedida·1916: Nikola Tesla·1917: John Joseph Carty·1918: Benjamin Garver Lamme·1919: William Le Roy Emmet·1920: Michael Pupin·1921: Cummings Chesney·1922: Robert Andrews Millikan·1923: John William Lieb·1924: John White Howell·1925: Harris Joseph Ryan
1926–1950
1926: Não concedida·1927: William D. Coolidge·1928: Frank Baldwin Jewett·1929: Charles Felton Scott·1930: Frank Conrad·1931: Edwin Wilbur Rice·1932: Bancroft Gherardi·1933: Arthur Edwin Kennelly·1934: Willis Rodney Whitney·1935: Lewis B. Stillwell·1936: Alex Dow·1937: Gano Dunn·1938: Dugald Caleb Jackson·1939: Philip Torchio·1940: George Ashley Campbell·1941: John Boswell Whitehead·1942: Edwin Armstrong·1943: Vannevar Bush·1944: Ernst Alexanderson·1945: Philip Sporn·1946: Lee De Forest·1947: Joseph Slepian·1948: Morris E. Leeds·1949: Karl B. McEachron·1950: Otto Bernard Blackwell
1951–1975
1951: Charles Wagner·1952: Vladimir Zworykin·1953: John F. Peters·1954: Oliver Ellsworth Buckley·1955: Leonid A. Umansky·1956: Comfort A. Adams·1957: John Hodnette·1958: Charles Kettering·1959: James F. Fairman·1960: Harold Smith Osborne·1961: William B. Kouwenhoven·1962: Alexander C. Monteith·1963: John Robinson Pierce·1964: Não concedida·1965: Walker Lee Cisler·1966: Wilmer Lanier Barrow·1967: George Harold Brown·1968: Charles F. Avila·1969: Hendrik Wade Bode·1970: Howard Aiken·1971: John Wistar Simpson·1972: William Hayward Pickering·1973: Bernard Tellegen·1974: Jan A. Rajchman·1975: Sidney Darlington
1976–2000
1976: Murray Joslin·1977: Henri Busignies·1978: Daniel E. Noble·1979: Albert Rose·1980: Robert Adler·1981: C. Chapin Cutler·1982: Nathan Cohn·1983: Herman P. Schwan·1984: Eugene Irving Gordon·1985: John D. Kraus·1986: James Flanagan·1987: Robert A. Henle·1988: James Ross MacDonald·1989: Nick Holonyak·1990: Archie W. Straiton·1991: John Louis Moll·1992: Dave Forney·1993: James Herbert Pomerene·1994: Leslie A. Geddes·1995: Robert W. Lucky·1996: Floyd Dunn·1997: Esther Marley Conwell·1998: Rolf Landauer·1999: Kees Schouhamer Immink·2000: Jun-ichi Nishizawa
2001–atualidade
2001: Robert H. Dennard·2002: Edward E. Hammer·2003: Não concedida·2004: Federico Capasso·2005: Peter Lawrenson·2006: Fawwaz T. Ulaby·2007: Russell Dean Dupuis·2008: Dov Frohman·2009: Tingye Li·2010: Ray Dolby·2011: Isamu Akasaki·2012: Michael Francis Tompsett·2013: Ivan Paul Kaminow·2014: Ralph Baer·2015: James Julius Spilker·2016: Robert W. Broderson·2017: Magnus George Craford·2018: Eli Yablonovitch·2019: Ursula Keller·2020: Frede Blaabjerg·2021: Kenichi Iga·2022: Alan Bovik·2023: Hiroyuki Matsunami·2024: Vincent W. S. Chan
1902: Joseph John Thomson1903: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf 1904: Joseph Wilson Swan 1905: Augusto Righi 1906: Hertha Marks Ayrton 1907: Ernest Howard Griffiths 1908: Eugen Goldstein 1909: Richard Glazebrook 1910: John Ambrose Fleming 1911: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson1912: William Duddell 1913: Alexander Graham Bell1914: John Sealy Townsend 1915: Paul Langevin1916: Elihu Thomson 1917: Charles Glover Barkla 1918: Irving Langmuir1919: Charles Chree 1920: Owen Willans Richardson1921: Niels Bohr1922: Francis William Aston1923: Robert Andrews Millikan1924: — 1925: Frank Edward Smith 1926: Henry Bradwardine Jackson 1927: William David Coolidge 1928: Maurice de Broglie 1929: Hans Geiger 1930: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman1931: William Lawrence Bragg1932: James Chadwick1933: Edward Appleton1934: Karl Siegbahn1935: Clinton Davisson1936: Walter Hermann Schottky 1937: Ernest Lawrence1938: John Cockcroft e Ernest Walton1939: George Paget Thomson1940: Arthur Holly Compton1941: Nevill Francis Mott 1942: Enrico Fermi1943: Marcus Oliphant 1944: George Finch 1945: Basil Schonland 1946: John Randall 1947: Frédéric Joliot-Curie1948: Robert Watson-Watt 1949: Cecil Powell1950: Max Born1951: Hendrik Anthony Kramers 1952: Philip Dee 1953: Edward Bullard 1954: Martin Ryle1955: Harrie Massey 1956: Frederick Lindemann 1957: Joseph Proudman 1958: Edward Andrade 1959: Brian Pippard 1960: Joseph Pawsey 1961: Alan Cottrell 1962: Brebis Bleaney 1963: Frederic Calland Williams 1964: Abdus Salam1965: Denys Wilkinson 1966: Nicholas Kemmer 1967: Kurt Mendelssohn 1968: Freeman Dyson1969: Nicholas Kurti 1970: David Bates 1971: Robert Hanbury Brown 1972: Brian David Josephson1973: Peter Hirsch 1974: Peter Fowler 1975: Richard Dalitz 1976: Stephen Hawking1977: Antony Hewish 1978: William Cochran 1979: Robert Williams 1980: Francis Farley 1981: Peter Higgs, Tom Kibble 1982: Drummond Hoyle Matthews e Frederick Vine 1983: John Clive Ward 1984: Roy Kerr 1985: Tony Skyrme 1986: Michael Woolfson 1987: Michael Pepper 1988: Archibald Howie e Michael John Whelan 1989: John Stewart Bell1990: Thomas George Cowling 1991: Philip Burton Moon 1992: Michael Seaton 1993: George Isaak 1994: Robert G. Chambers 1995: David Shoenberg 1996: Amyand Buckingham 1997: Andrew Lang 1998: Raymond Hide 1999: Alexander Boksenberg 2000: Chintamani Rao 2001: John Pethica 2002: Alexander Dalgarno 2003: Peter Edwards 2004: John Clarke 2005: Keith Moffatt 2006: Michael Kelly 2007: Artur Ekert 2008: Michele Dougherty 2010: Andre Geim2011: Matthew Rosseinsky 2013: Henning Sirringhaus 2015: George Efstathiou 2017: Peter Bruce 2018: James Durrant 2019: Andrew Cooper 2020: Clare Grey
1921: Hjalmar Gotfried Carlson·1922: Frederick Arthur Halsey·1923: John Ripley Freeman·1926: Robert Andrews Millikan·1927: Wilfred Lewis·1928: Julian Kennedy·1930: William Le Roy Emmet·1931: Albert Kinsbury·1933: Ambrose Swasey·1934: Willis Carrier·1935: Charles Thomas Main·1936: Edward Bausch·1937: Edward P. Bullard Jr.·1938: Stephen Joseph Pigott·1939: James Emmet Gleason·1940: Charles Kettering·1941: Theodore von Kármán·1942: Ervin George Bailey·1943: Lewis Ketcham Sillcox·1944: Edward G. Budd·1945: William Frederick Durand·1946: Morris E. Leeds·1947: Paul Walter Kiefer·1948: Frederick George Keyes·1949: Fred L. Dornbrook·1950: Harvey Coles Knowles
1951–1975
1951: Glenn Barton Warren·1952: Nevin Elwell Funk·1953: Crosby Field·1954: Edwin Burnley Powell·1955: Granville Moorman Read·1956: Harry Franklin Vickers·1957: Llewellyn Michael Kraus Boelter·1958: Wilbur Hering Armacost·1959: Martin Frisch·1960: Richard Soderberg·1962: Philip Sporn·1963: Igor Sikorsky·1964: Alan Howard·1965: Jan Burgers·1967: Mayo Dyer Hersey·1968: Samuel Cornette Collins·1969: Lloyd Hamilton Donnell·1970: Robert Gilruth·1971: Horace Smart Beattie·1972: Waloddi Weibull·1973: Christopher C. Kraft·1974: Nicholas Hoff·1975: Maxime Faget
1976–2000
1976: Raymond Mindlin·1977: Robert W. Mann·1979: Den Hartog·1981: Robert S. Hahn·1983: Jack N. Binns, Sr.·1984: Aaron Cohen·1985: Milton C. Shaw·1986: Orlan W. Boston·1987: Philip Gibson Hodge·1988: Eric Reissner·1989: William R. Sears·1990: Harley A. Wilhelm·1992: Daniel Drucker·1993: Richard H. Gallagher·1996: Robert C. Dean, Jr.·1997: Bernard Budiansky·1998: Frank Kreith·1999: Norman Abramson·2000: Arther E. Bergles
2000–present
2001: Warren M. Rohsenow·2002: Leroy Stevenson Fletcher·2003: Norman Ralph Augustine·2004: Bradford Parkinson·2005: Robert E. Uhrig·2006: Richard J. Goldstein·2007: Dean Kamen·2008: Frank E. Talke·2009: Suh Nam-pyo·2010: John Abele·2011: Clayton Daniel Mote Jr.·2012: Jan Achenbach·2013: Sia Nemat-Nasser·2014: Van C. Mow·2015: James Robert Rice·2016: J. N. Reddy·2017: Zdeněk Bažant·2018: Thomas J.R. Hughes·2019: Reginald Vachon·2020: Subra Suresh·2021: Pol Dimitrios Spanos
Presidentes da Associação Americana para o Avanço da Ciência