Caltech, in Millikan's view, existed to provide America's scientific leadership. From Wordnik.com. [History of Caltech] Reference
Your scientist Millikan discovered these rays for you, and in your language they are known as Millikan, or Cosmic, rays. From Wordnik.com. [Skylark Three] Reference
Millikan denies that such contents are implausible. From Wordnik.com. [Teleological Theories of Mental Content] Reference
University on recommendation of Professor Millikan. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton Davisson - Biography] Reference
Caltech era was created by Hale, Millikan, and Noyes. From Wordnik.com. [History of Caltech] Reference
On the instigation of his professors, Millikan spent a year. From Wordnik.com. [Robert A. Millikan - Biography] Reference
At the time, the only other Nobel Laureate at Caltech was Millikan. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hunt Morgan and His Legacy] Reference
Tolman, Millikan and other legendary figures of that time, on campus. From Wordnik.com. [Vernon L. Smith - Autobiography] Reference
Millikan spun, looking toward the sound, then over his shoulder at me. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
For the former, see Millikan 1984, 1986, 1989; and Papineau 1987, 1993. From Wordnik.com. [Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness] Reference
Millikan wanted to make Caltech one of the physics capitals of the world. From Wordnik.com. [History of Caltech] Reference
Millikan could see it in a telescope like a bright star on a black background. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1923 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Portrait of Noyes, Millikan, Hale hangs in the main dining room at the Athenaeum. From Wordnik.com. [Untitled] Reference
The planning and direction of the experiments Millikan entrusted to Dr. Anderson. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Millikan had, however, found the idea of light quanta to be unfamiliar and strange. From Wordnik.com. [The Dual Nature of Light as Reflected in the Nobel Archives] Reference
Millikan was an enthusiastic tennis player, and golf was also one of his recreations. From Wordnik.com. [Robert A. Millikan - Biography] Reference
Millikan initiated a visiting-scholars program shortly after his arrival in Pasadena. From Wordnik.com. [History of Caltech] Reference
Portrait of Noyes, Millikan and Hale hangs in the main dining room at the Athenaeum, Caltech. From Wordnik.com. [History of Caltech] Reference
Cult expert the Rev David Millikan said the original intention of the law was being undermined. From Wordnik.com. [Cleric says religious hatred law abused] Reference
Millikan dropped his Italian oil dressing. de Broglie mostly just stood in the corner and waved. From Wordnik.com. [2009 May « Items of Interest] Reference
Millikan (1984) shows implicitly that in this respect they are atypical of linguistic coordinations. From Wordnik.com. [Game Theory] Reference
Millikan (1984, chapter 1) offers an etiological theory that is not specific to physiological functions. From Wordnik.com. [Teleological Theories of Mental Content] Reference
During 1920-1923, Millikan occupied himself with work concerning the hot-spark spectroscopy of the elements. From Wordnik.com. [Robert A. Millikan - Biography] Reference
Caltech that Hale, Millikan, and Noyes had set out to build in the twenties had come of age in the thirties. From Wordnik.com. [History of Caltech] Reference
Throughout his life Millikan remained a prolific author, making numerous contributions to scientific journals. From Wordnik.com. [Robert A. Millikan - Biography] Reference
Millikan need not be understood as discovering something about the nature of unobservable objects in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond the Voice] Reference
Andrews Millikan Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, where he joined the faculty in 1955. From Wordnik.com. [Murray Gell-Mann - Biography] Reference
In 1930, with Professor Millikan, he began his cosmic-ray studies which led in 1932 to the discovery of the positron. From Wordnik.com. [Carl D. Anderson - Biography] Reference
By a brilliant method of investigation and by extraordinarily exact experimental technique Millikan reached his goal. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1923 - Presentation Speech] Reference
An alternative to the essentialist conception is the homeostatic property cluster theory of natural kinds (Millikan 1999). From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Death] Reference
September of that year he entered the University of Chicago and came at once under the influence of Professor R.A. Millikan. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton Davisson - Biography] Reference
Millikan, who functioned as the school's president between the wars, was fiercely opposed to government funding of research. From Wordnik.com. [History of Caltech] Reference
In justifying the reward of Millikan the Academy has not omitted to refer also to his investigations of photoelectric effect. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1923 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Theoretical physics, always a stepchild under Millikan, entered a golden age with the acquisition of Richard Feynman and Murray. From Wordnik.com. [History of Caltech] Reference
As a scientist, Millikan made numerous momentous discoveries, chiefly in the fields of electricity, optics, and molecular physics. From Wordnik.com. [Robert A. Millikan - Biography] Reference
What he knows includes Millikan, some of the protagonists involved in cold fusion, high-temperature superconductivity, and Caltech. From Wordnik.com. [Cautionary tales from the front lines of science - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
For instance, Millikan used positive evidence to disconfirm the theory that electrical charge is a quantity that varies continuously. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
In return, Millikan agreed to come, as director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, and administrative head of the Institute. From Wordnik.com. [History of Caltech] Reference
Rushton, Hodgkin and the late G.A. Millikan (all Fellows of Trinity) and others in the department, and he decided to specialise in it. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew F. Huxley - Biography] Reference
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