Fun facts
- In his sophomore year in college at Oberlin he was asked to teach an introductory-level physics class
- He received his PhD in 1895
- Wrote and co-wrote texts in the physics field
- Millikan wanted to rise his academic rank, so that’s why he decided to research the charge of an electron
- When measuring the course of charged water droplets, they evaporated too quickly
- Millikan proved that radiation is from an extraterrestrial origin, and named it “cosmic rays”
- He was chairman of the executive council at Caltech
- He retired in 1945