The Autobiography of Robert A Millikan

Robert A. Millikan

• Publisher: Barakaldo Books
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781839747595
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

Robert Millikan tells his story in his own words. "This book represents an effort to record and appraise some of the changes which have come under the eyes of one particular observer of the rapidly changing scene. I shall begin, however, in 1825, some forty years before my birth.""The Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan is one of the most outstanding works of its kind done by an American man of science. The treatment is lucid and brings out in clear relief not only the activities of the man himself but of those, and there are many, with whom he has associated and collaborated in the fields of teaching, research, and administration. The autobiography is that of a dynamic personality associated with patience, persistence and enthusiasm. The treatment is free from egotism and refreshingly frank and forthright." — B. J. Spence, American Journal of Physics"Robert Andrews Millikan is one of the most distinguished physicists in the world and his autobiography will interest not only the entire scientific world, but the reading public at large... It is refreshing and helpful for younger [scientific] workers to read... that only after many discouraging attempts did [Millikan's] great researches on the determination of the electronic charge and his proof of the Einstein photoelectric law emerge." — Robert S. Shankland, Physics Today"It is seldom that a man is so successful in getting his personality into his own writing about himself... The book is much more than the record of the life of one man,... it is a history of the physics of his time, and as such will find its place among the other histories of the most memorable decades that physics has yet experienced." — P. W. Bridgman, Science

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• FOREWORD
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• 1-EARLY CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION, OR MIDWEST PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION IN THE SEVENTIES
• 2-COLLEGIATE AND GRADUATE EDUCATION
• 3-EUROPEAN CONTACTS IN THE NINETIES
• 4-EARLY TEACHING, ORGANIZING AND TEXTBOOK WRITING AT CHICAGO
• 5-CHICAGO FRIENDSHIPS, COURTSHIP, AND MARRIAGE
• 6-EARLY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AT CHICAGO
• 7-MY OIL-DROP VENTURE (e)
• 8-INCREASED RESPONSIBILITIES AND A FURTHER LOOK AT EUROPE IN 1912
• 9-THE EXPERIMENTAL PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE PHOTON-EINSTEIN’S PHOTOELECTRIC EQUATION
• 10-EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AT CHICAGO
• 11-THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
• 12-MOBILIZING SCIENCE FOR WAR
• 13-THE SUBMARINE MENACE IN WORLD WAR I
• 14-BIG AND LITTLE EVENTS IN 1918
• 15-TRANSITION AND RECONVERSION YEARS
• 16-MY TRANSFER TO CALTECH
• 17-MY EARLY YEARS AT C. I. T.
• 18-C.I.T. PROJECTS
• 19-THE ROAD TO PEACE
• 20-FORKS ON THE ROAD
• 21-THE TWO SUPREME ELEMENTS IN HUMAN PROGRESS
• APPENDIX A
• APPENDIX B
• APPENDIX C
• APPENDIX D
• APPENDIX E