Physicist (22-Mar-1868 — 19-Dec-1953)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Robert H. Kargon. The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science. Cornell University Press. 1982. 205pp.

Robert A. Millikan. The Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan. New York: Prentice-Hall. 1950. 311pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1015)

6. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.780)

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.481)

8. Webster's American Biographies (p.724)

9. Obituaries from the Times 1951-1960 (pp.506-07)

10. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.502)

11. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.367)

12. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.344)

13. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.336)

14. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.351)

15. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.130)

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