"The Relation of Science to Industry"
Speech
By: Robert A. Millikan
Date: November 1928
Source: Millikan, Robert A. "The Relation of Science to Industry." Address delivered at the annual dinner of the New York Chamber of Commerce, November 1928. Published in Millikan, Robert A. Science and the New Civilization. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930, 36–39.
About the Author: Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953), a native of Morrison, Illinois, received his Ph.D. in physics in 1895 from Columbia University. He then studied at Göttingen and Berlin in Germany, returning the following year to take a position at the Ryerson Laboratory of the University of Chicago. While there, he conducted an "oil-drop" experiment that measured the charge of an electron, which won him the Nobel Prize for physics in 1923. From 1921 to 1945 Millikan worked at the California Institute of Technology, contributing to the knowledge...
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