Millikan

American  

[mil-i-kuhn] / ˈmɪl ɪ kən /

noun

1. Robert Andrews, 1868–1953, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1923.

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Millikan British  

/ ˈmɪlɪkən /

noun

1. Robert Andrews. 1868–1953, US physicist. He measured the charge of an electron (1910), verified Einstein's equation for the photoelectric effect (1916), and studied cosmic rays; Nobel prize for physics 1923

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Millikan Scientific  

/ mĭl′ĭ-kən /

1. American physicist who measured the electron charge and experimentally verified Einstein's equation describing the photoelectric effect. For this work he received the 1923 Nobel Prize for physics. Milllikan also proved the existence of (and coined the term for) cosmic rays.

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Example Sentences

The Condor’s real-life counterparts included Sherman Kent and William Langer, historians at Yale and Harvard, respectively, and Max Millikan, an MIT economist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

In the 1920s, Nobel Prize winner Robert Millikan refined the formula.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

Drilling delivered high gold grades, strong widths, and mineralized extensions, says analyst Mike Millikan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Quali Giran, Long Beach Millikan: From the very first game he has lived up to the hype of a freshman ready to contribute immediately.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

At the presentation of his conference paper, Oppenheimer was run through the intellectual wringer by Robert Millikan, the notoriously prickly Caltech president.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik