Word: millikan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Andrews Millikan, native American of Anglo-Saxon stock, was awarded the 1923 Nobel prize for physics. This is the fourth time that a Nobel award has been made to an American scientist.* The fact that 66 men and women in all have received Nobel decorations in physics, chemistry and medicine in the 23 years since they were inaugurated, gives America no particular license to crow. As Dr. Millikan himself has said, "We have not produced one-half as many-I think I may say one-fifth as many-out-standing scientific men in proportion to our population as have...
...prize in physics for 1922, gave the Silliman lectures at Yale University on The Atom and the Natural System of the Elements. Dr. Bohr was not the pioneer of the electronic theory of the atom, but he has greatly refined and expanded it, and stands with Thomson, Rutherford, Lodge, Millikan as one of the world's foremost exponents of the " new " physics. A few points of special interest in Dr. Bohr's lectures...
...place in the Harvard-Yale meet. The Elis' real strength in this department, however, lies in her former Freshman star, Anton Hulman '24, who was a high scorer against the University 1924 team, winning both the 120-yard high hurdles and the 220-yard low hurdle events. C. B. Millikan '24, another member of last year's Freshman aggregation, will also be available...