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Robert Millikan

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Profession
Physicist
Died
Dec 19, 1953
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
Illinois
About
Physicist who became the second American to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his work measuring the charge of the electron. He coined the term "cosmic rays" to describe radiation of extraterrestrial origins.
Family
He was born in Morrison, Illinois, and went to high school in Maquoketa, Iowa. His father was a Congregational minister and his mother was a former dean at a small college.

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