Robert Andrews Millikan

Robert Andrews Millikan was born March 22, 1868, and spent his career as an American experimental physicist chasing measurements other scientists thought impossible. His Nobel Prize in 1923 recognized both his determination of the elementary charge of electricity and his work on the photoelectric effect. In 1921 he became Chairman of the Executive Council at Caltech, the school's governing body, and over the next twenty-four years helped transform it into one of the country's premier research institutions. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service — later the Society for Scie…