Robert A. Millikan, Japanese Internment, and Eugenics, by Thomas Hales

Nobel Laureate in physics Robert A. Millikan (1868-1953) was the second American to win the Nobel Prize in physics. At the peak of his influence, no scientist save Einstein was more admired by the American public. Millikan’s greatest scientific achievement was the isolation the electron and the measurement of its charge. Millikan was awarded a...

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