
“for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect”
Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect. He was affiliated with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the USA when awarded.
- Field
- Physics · Experimental Physics
- Lifespan
- 1868–1953