Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
Millikan in 1923
Millikan's original oil-drop apparatus, circa 1909–1910
Robert A. Millikan around 1923
The former Millikan Library at Caltech in 2010 (renamed Caltech Hall in 2021)
The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901, the others being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Physics is traditionally the first award presented in the Nobel Prize ceremony.
Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923), the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Three Nobel Laureates in Physics. Front row L-R: Albert A. Michelson (1907 laureate), Albert Einstein (1921 laureate), and Robert A. Millikan (1923 laureate).
1903 Nobel Prize diploma, awarded to Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
