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...been the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play. Among its board members: the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul; Stanford's former President Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur; the University of Oregon's President Donald Erb; Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Robert A. Millikan. But when the Fair Play Committee's Pasadena chapter distributed Private Borchers' letter to the Legion, it promptly got itself "investigated" last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inquisition in Los Angeles | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...hearing, Nobel Scientist Millikan telephoned a protest statement to the committee attorney. When the attorney began to read it aloud, Gannon interrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inquisition in Los Angeles | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Robert Andrews Millikan (1923), who at the University of Chicago first isolated and measured the exact electric charge of electrons; now executive head of the California Institute of Technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobel Dinner | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...Arthur Holly Compton (1927), keen, handsome successor to Millikan at the University of Chicago, who first showed experimentally that light is composed of discrete particles as well as waves; better known now for his study of cosmic rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobel Dinner | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

JEANNE T. MILLIKAN Woodbridge, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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