Journal article

By: Robert A. Millikan

Date: March 1916

Source: Millikan, Robert, A. "A Direct Photoelectric Determination of Planck's' h '." Physical Review 7, March 1916, 355–357, 359, 360–361, 374–375, 383, 388.

About the Author: Robert A. Millikan (1868–1953) was born in Morrison, Illinois. He received his doctorate from Columbia University and taught physics at the University of Chicago (1896–1921) and at the California Institute of Technology from 1921 until 1945. Among Millikan's many achievements, he was president of the American Physical Society, director of the National Research Council, and Nobel laureate for Physics in 1923.

Introduction

Robert A. Millikan's contributions to science include three important verifications of the wave-particle duality. The wave-particle duality is the principle that subatomic particles possess...