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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectRobert Andrews Millikan
Dates
March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953
Authorized Form of Name
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953
Additional Forms of Names
Millikan, R. A. (Robert Andrews), 1868-1953
Millikan, Robert, 1868-1953
Millikan, Robert A.
Biography
Abstract
Physicist (photoelectricity, ions) and eductor. On the physics faculty at University of Chicago (1896-1921); on the faculty at California Institute of Technology: director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and chairman of the Executive Council (1921-1946), emeritus professor of physics and chairman of the Board of Trustees, from 1946; Nobel Prize in physics (1923).
Important Dates
March 22, 1868Birth, Morrison (Ill.).
1891 – 1893Obtained AB and AM, Oberlin College, Oberlin (Ohio).
1895Obtained PhD in physics, Columbia University, New York (N.Y.).
1895 – 1896Post doctoral studies, Universities of Berlin and Gottingen.
1896 – 1921Assistant in Physics (1896-97), Associate in Physics (1897-99), Instructor in Physics (1899-1902), Assistant Professor of Physics (1902-07), Associate Professor of Physics (1907-10), and Professor of Physics (1910-21), University of Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).
1903 – 1919Associate Editor, Physical Review.
1915Elected member, National Academy of Sciences.
1916 – 1917President, American Physical Society (APS).
1916 – 1919Vice Chair (1917) and Executive Officer and Director of Research, National Research Council.
1917Chair, Physical Sciences Division, National Academy of Sciences.
1917 – 1919Chief, Science and Research Division, Signal Corps, United States Army.
1921 – 1945Director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).
1921 – 1953Chair, Executive Council (1921-45) and Emeritus Professor of Physics (1945-53), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).
1922Awarded Edison Medal, American Society for Engineering Education.
1923Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics.
1927 – 1953Member, Executive Committee Board, National Academy of Sciences.
1929President, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1934Chair, Physical Sciences Division, National Academy of Sciences.
1945 – 1953Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Calif.).
December 19, 1953Death, San Marino (Calif.).
Occupation
Experimental and molecular physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Family
Andrews, Mary Jane.
Mother.
Millikan, Clark Blanchard, 1903-1966
Son and both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Millikan, Glenn A.
Son.
Millikan, Greta
Wife, married in 1902.
Millikan, Max F.
Son.
Millikan, Silas F., 1834-1915
Father.
Advisors & Collaborators
Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991
Advised by Millikan at California Institute of Technology, Space Distribution of X-Ray Photo-Electric Cells. Both also employed there.
Advised by Millikan at California Institute of Technology and both employed there.
Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-
Advised by Millikan on his thesis concerning the measurement of the specific heat ratios of hydrogen.
Advised by Millikan at the University of Chicago and both employed there.
Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-
Advised by Millikan at California Institute of Technology.
Advised by Millikan at University of Chicago and worked together on oil drop experiment.
Gale, Henry Gordon, 1874-1942
Collaborated on a series of textbooks that were a mainstay of physics courses in the first half of the twentieth century.
Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938
Close associate who helped Millikan go to the California Institute of Technology.
Haynes, Sherwood Kimball, 1910-1990
Advised by Millikan at California Institute of Technology.
Jesse, William Polk, 1891-1974
Advised by Millikan at the University of Chicago.
Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968
Advised by Millikan at California Institute of Technology, "Electron emission from metals in intense electron fields," and both employed there.
Loeb, Leonard B. (Leonard Benedict), 1891-
Advised by Millikan at the University of Chicago in the mobility of gaseous ions in high electrical fields.
Loughridge, Donald Holt, 1899-
Advised by Millikan at Throop Polytechnic Institute (later California Institute of Technology).
Mann, Charles Riborg, 1869-1942
Co-wrote "The Theory of Optics," translated from the German.
Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931
PhD advisor at Columbia University.
Mills, John, 1880-1948
Co-wrote "Electricity, Sound, and Light."
Advisor at University of Gottingen.
Noyes, Arthur A. (Arthur Amos), 1866-1936
Close associate who helped Millikan go to the California Institute of Technology.
Pickering, W. H. (William Hayward), 1910-2004
Advised by Millikan at California Institute of Technology and collaborated on balloon-flight studies of cosmic rays.
Pupin, Michael, 1858-1935
PhD advisor at Columbia University.
Richter, Charles, 1900-1985
Advised by Millikan at California Institute of Technology.
Rood, Ogden N. (Ogden Nicholas), 1831-1902
PhD advisor at Columbia University.
Sawyer, Ralph A. (Ralph Alanson), 1895-1978
Advised by Millikan at the University of Chicago.
Advised by Millikan at University of Chicago.
Stratton, Samuel W. (Samuel Wesley), 1861-1931
Co-wrote "A College Course in Physics."
Truesdell, C. (Clifford), 1919-2000
Advised by Millikan.
Wahlin, H. B. (Hugo Bernard)
Advised by Millikan at University of Chicago.
Wayland, Harold
Advised by Millikan at California Institute of Technology.
Zhao, Zhongyao
Advised by Millikan at California Institute of Technology.
Colleagues
Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Bonner, Tom Wilkerson, 1910-1961
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Crane, H. R. (Horace Richard), 1907-2007
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
DuMond, Jesse W. M. (Jesse William Monroe), 1892-1976
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Furry, W. H. (Wendell Hinkle), 1907-
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Houston, W. V. (William Vermillion), 1900-
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Took class from Millikan at California Institute of Technology and both employed there.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at the University of Chicago.
Neddermeyer, Seth H. (Seth Henry), 1907-1988
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Schiff, Leonard I. (Leonard Isaac), 1915-1971
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Slichter, Louis B. (Louis Byrne), 1896-1978
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Tolman, Richard C. (Richard Chace), 1881-1948
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Webster, David Locke, 1888-1976
Served under Millikan as a lieutenant in Science and Research Division of U.S. Army Signal Corps.
Additional
Alexander, Jerome, 1876-1959
Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950
Barton, Henry Askew, 1898-1983
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1898-1973
Brush, Charles Francis, 1849-1929
Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962
Both were pioneers of cosmic rays and got into a rancorous scientific dispute over the source and character of such radiation.
Compton, Betty Charity McCloskey, 1916-
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954
Cunningham, Ebenezer
Dawson, Jim (James L.)
Fleming, J. A. (John Adam), 1877-1956
Fulcher, Gordon S. (Gordon Scott), 1884-
Goetz, Alexander, 1897-1970
Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978
Grosse, Aristid von, 1905-1985
Gutenberg, Hertha, 1897-1990
Herring, William Conyers, 1914-
Hoag, J. Barton, 1898-1962
Took classes from Millikan at the University of Chicago.
Hoddeson, Lillian
Hull, Gordon Ferrie, 1870-
Jewett, Frank B. (Frank Baldwin), 1879-1949
Kelly, Katherine Milsted
Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-
Klein, Arthur L.
Knudsen, Vern Oliver, 1893-1974
Laird, Elizabeth Rebecca, 1874-1969
Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946
Neher, Henry Victor, 1904-
Corresponded in preparation for Neher's 1964 lecture for the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), "Millikan: Teacher and Friend."
Nierenberg, William Aaron, 1919-2000
Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Piccard, Jean Felix, 1884-1963
Plesset, Milton S. (Milton Spinoza)
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Rasetti, Franco, 1901-2001
Ricker, Norman Hurd
Shackelford, Benjamin Estill, 1891-
Shapiro, Maurice M. (Maurice Mandel), 1915-
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951
Tate, John T. (John Torrence), 1889-1950
Taylor, Lloyd William, 1893-1948
Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980
Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960
Watters, Leon Laizer, 1877-
Wooldridge, Dean E.
Wouk, Victor, 1919-2005
Institutions
Major Positions
California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
Began working in 1917 for several months a year as Director of Physical Research; Emeritus Professor of Physics.
United States. Army. Signal Corps
Chief.
University of Chicago. Department of Physics
Assistant in Physics, Associate in Physics, Instructor in Physics, Assistant Professor of Physics, Associate Professor of Physics, and Professor of Physics.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
American Association for the Advancement of Science
President.
President.
American Society for Engineering Education.
California Institute of Technology
Chair, Executive Council.
Columbia University. Department of Physics
Obtained first PhD given by school.
Cornell University
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
International Research Council.
League of Nations. Committee on Intellectual Co-operation.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member, chair of Physical Sciences Division and member of Executive Committee Board.
National Research Council (U.S.)
Vice chair.
Oberlin College. Department of Physics
Obtained AB and AM.
Universität Göttingen
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Earnest C. Watson corrected copy of "Mechanics, Molecular Physics, Heat, and Sound," 1937-1952.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert A. Millikan papers, 1821-1953.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Robert Millikan correspondence, 1917-1918.
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20418, USA
Subject
A talk with Harvey Fletcher [motion picture], produced by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Albert Einstein speeches [sound recording], 1932-1933.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Albert Michelson papers, 1803-1989 (bulk 1861-1965).
Nimitz Library Special Collections Division
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD 21402, USA
Alexander Goetz papers, 1919-1976 (bulk 1930-1976).
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk).
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Arnold Sommerfeld papers ("New" Sommerfeld Nachlass), 1890-1950.
Deutsches Museum
Museumsinsel 1, 80306 Munich, Germany
Arthur Holly Compton papers, 1905-1971.
University Archives
Washington University
Campus Box 1061, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
Benjamin E. Shackelford papers, 1913-1916.
The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Carl Eckart papers, 1921-1973 (bulk 1935-1970).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Charles Brush papers, 1869-1929.
Kelvin Smith Library. Special Collections
Case Western Reserve University
11055 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106-7151, USA
Cornell University Department of Physics records [microform], 1876-1948.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Donald H. Loughridge autobiography, circa 1945.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Elizabeth Rebecca Laird papers, 1897-1959.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Ernest Merritt papers, 1887-1950.
Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Faust, eine Historie, 1932.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
George Ellery Hale papers, 1882-1938.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Gilbert Newton Lewis papers, 1908-1945.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Gordon Ferrie Hull papers, 1889-1955.
Rauner Special Collections Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Gordon Scott Fulcher papers, 1897-1970.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
H. Victor Neher papers, 1916-1994.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Harvey Fletcher autobiographical notes, 1956.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Helen Wright collection on George Ellery Hale, 1887-1972.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
University Archives
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Henry H. Arnold papers, 1903-1963 (bulk 1940-1946).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
I. I. Rabi papers, 1899-1989 (bulk 1945-1968).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Ira Sprague Bowen Astronomy: my way of life, as told to Andrew Hamilton, circa 1960.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
J. Barton Hoag papers, 1914-1963 (bulk 1917-1962).
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
J. H. Van Vleck selected correspondence and notes [microform], 1923-1959, (bulk 1923-1938).
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Jerome Alexander correspondence, 1908-1953.
Rare Books and Manuscripts Division
New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018, USA
Jesse W. M. DuMond papers, 1912-1976.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Jim Dawson collection on Frank Oppenheimer, 1946-1999.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Karl Darrow correspondence relating to history of the American Physical Society, 1943-1968.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Karl K. Darrow papers, 1872-1978 (bulk 1917-1972).
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Leon Watters papers, 1887-1967.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Leonard B. Loeb student notebooks, 1914-1915.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Lillian Hoddeson addition to papers, 1913-2006.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Lloyd W. and Esther Bliss Taylor papers, 1896-1980 (bulk 1921-1970).
Archives
Oberlin College
420 Mudd Center, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA
Mount Wilson Observatory records of George Ellery Hale, 1901-1925.
Henry E. Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108, USA
Norman Ricker papers, 1914-1956.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
O. W. Richardson papers, 1897-1959 (bulk 1920-1940).
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Drawer 7219, Austin, TX 78713-7219, USA
Oral history interview with Alvin Virgil Tollestrup, 1994.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Aristid Victor Grosse, 1974 January 11 and April 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Arthur L. Klein, 1979 February 14, 18, 21 and 1982 April 20.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Betty Compton, 1968 April 11 and 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Carl Anderson, 1966 June 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Carl Anderson, 1979 January 9 -February 8.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Charles Christian Lauritsen, 1966 June 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Charles F. Richter, 1978 February 15-September 1.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with David Locke Webster, 1964 May 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Dean E. Wooldridge, 1976 August 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Ebenezer Cunningham, 1963 June 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin C. Kemble, 1962 May 11 to 1963 October 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Franco Rasetti, 1982.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1973 February 9 and May 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hans Bethe, 1982, 1993.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Harvey Fletcher, 1964 May 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Henry A. Barton, 1970 March 3 and 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hertha Gutenberg, 1980 February 6-13.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Ira Bowen, 1968 August 9 and 1969 August 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1963 November 18 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Karl K. Darrow, 1964 April 2 and 10 June.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Katharine Milsted Kelly, 1976 July 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Lee A. DuBridge, 1986 February 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Lee A. DuBridge, Parts I and II, 1981.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Leonard B. Loeb, 1962 August 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Linus Carl Pauling, 1964 March 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Luis Alvarez, 1967 February 14 and 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Maurice Mandel Shapiro, 1978 May 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Milton Plesset, 1981 December 8.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral History interview with Paul S. Epstein, 1965.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Paul Sophus Epstein, 1962 May 25, 26 and June 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Ralph Alanson Sawyer, 1967 March 16 and 1970 September 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1981, 1983.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Robert S. Shankland, 1974 August 20 and 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robley D. Evans, 1972 May 2, 3, 1974 May 5 and 1978 June 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, 1963 December 5 and 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Seth H. Neddermeyer, 1984 May 7.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Seth Neddermeyer, 1972 May 30 and 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Thomas Lauritsen, 1967 February 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Vern Oliver Knudsen, 1964 May 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Vern Oliver Knudsen, 1964.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral History interview with Victor Wouk, 24 May 2004.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Walter M. Elsasser, 1985 November 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Walter M. Elsasser, 1986 March 12.
Archives
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
Oral history interview with Walter M. Elsasser, 1986 March 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with William A. Fowler, 1983 May 3 - May 31, 1984.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with William Aaron Nierenberg, 1986 February 6 and June 26, 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with William Conyers Herring, 1974 July 23, 29, and 31 October.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral History interview with William H. Pickering, 1978.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1973 May 15 and 1974 March 6 and June 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history joint interview with James Franck and Hertha Sponer-Franck, 1962 July 9 to 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oswald Veblen papers, 1881-1960 (bulk 1920-1960).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Papers of physicists and astronomers in Hoover Library, 1918-1965.
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
West Branch, IA 52358, USA
Paul S. Epstein papers, 1898-1966.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Piccard Family papers, 1470-1983 (bulk 1926-1983).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Reviews of Modern Physics correspondence of John Torrence Tate, 1928.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Scientific apparatus collection.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Sherwood Kimball Haynes response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Teacher, researcher, and administrator : transcript, 1966-1969.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
The Columbia Physics Department: A brief history.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Theodore Von Karman papers, 1871-1963.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
University of Michigan Department of Physics records, 1873-2002 (bulk 1954-1991).
Bentley Historical Library
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2113, USA
Walter M Elsasser response to History of Geophysics Survey, 1988.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Weekly Broadcasts, 1941-1943.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
William P. Jesse scientific autobiography, 1968.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
William Polk Jesse student notebooks, 1919-1921.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
A first course in laboratory physics for secondary schools
A first course in physics for colleges
A laboratory course in physics for secondary schools
A manual of experiments to accompany "A first course in physics for colleges"
A short university course in electricity, sound, and light
Electrons (+ and -), protons, photons, neutrons, mesotrons, and cosmic rays
Evolution in science and religion
Mechanics, molecular physics and heat : a twelve weeks' college course
Mechanics, molecular physics, heat, and sound
Science and the new civilization
The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan
The electron, its isolation and measurement and the determination of some of its properties
Subject
Robert A. Millikan Physics Today obituary
The rise of Robert Millikan : portrait of a life in American Science [by] Robert H. Kargon