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According to Wikipedia, Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

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National Research Council (583)
Modern Physics (367)
The General Law of Fall of a Small Spherical Body through a Gas, and its Bearing upon the Nature of Molecular Reflection from Surfaces (1923) (362)
A Direct Photoelectric Determination of Planck's " h " (1916) (271)
Coefficients of Slip in Gases and the Law of Reflection of Molecules from the Surfaces of Solids and Liquids (1923) (210)
Fields currents from points (1928) (134)
THE ISOLATION OF AN ION, A PRECISION MEASUREMENT OF ITS CHARGE, AND THE CORRECTION OF STOKES'S LAW. (1910) (114)
A new modification of the cloud method of measuring the elementary electrical charge, and the most probable value of that charge (1910) (79)
The Isolation of an Ion, a Precision Measurement of its Charge, and the Correction of Stokes's Law (1911) (70)
Einstein's Photoelectric Equation and Contact Electromotive Force (69)
Laws governing the pulling of electrons out of metals by intense electrical fields (60)
Relations of Field-Currents to Thermionic-Currents. (59)
High frequency rays of cosmic origin III. Measurements in snow-fed lakes at high altitudes (1926) (51)
I. A new determination of e, N, and related constants (1917) (51)
The Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan (1950) (44)
A Direct Determination of "h." (1914) (41)
High Frequency Rays of Cosmic Origin (1925) (38)
New light on the nature and origin of the incoming cosmic rays (1938) (36)
A precision world survey of sea-level cosmic-ray intensities (1936) (31)
The Origin of the Cosmic Rays (1928) (30)
ATOMIC THEORIES OF RADIATION. (1913) (26)
Extreme ultra-violet spectra (25)
Radioactive Substances and Their Radiations (1913) (23)
Electrons (+ and -), protons, photons, neutrons, and cosmic rays (1935) (21)
The nature of the process of ionization of gases by alpha rays (1920) (21)
Cosmic-ray energies and their bearing on the photon and neutron hypotheses (1932) (21)
A very high altitude survey of the effect of latitude upon cosmic-ray intensities - and an attempt at a general interpretation of cosmic-ray phenomena (1934) (21)
A more accurate and more extended cosmic-ray ionization-depth curve, and the present evidence for atom-building (1931) (20)
The influence of the Earth's magnetic field on cosmic-ray intensities up to the top of the atmosphere (1937) (20)
The Distinction between Intrinsic and Spurious Contact E.M.F.S and the Question of the Absorption of Radiation by Metals in Quanta. (1921) (20)
High Frequency Rays of Cosmic Origin I. Sounding Balloon Observations at Extreme Altitudes (1926) (20)
High altitude tests on the geographical, directional, and spectral distribution of cosmic rays (1928) (20)
Albert Einstein on His Seventieth Birthday (1949) (19)
The Mechanism of Cosmic-Ray Counter Action (1934) (19)
New Results on Cosmic Rays (18)
New precision in cosmic ray measurements; Yielding extension of spectrum and indications of bands (1928) (18)
Brownian Movements in Gases at Low Pressures (1913) (17)
AVAILABLE ENERGY. (16)
The equatorial longitude effect in cosmic rays (1935) (16)
Dependence of Electron Emission from metals upon Field Strengths and Temperatures (1929) (15)
The Extension of the Ultra-Violet Spectrum (1920) (15)
The extension of the X-ray-doublet laws into the field of optics (1924) (15)
New high-altitude study of cosmic-ray bands and a new determination of their total energy content (1933) (14)
A study of the polarization of the light emitted by incandescent solid and liquid surfaces (1895) (14)
New Techniques in the Cosmic-Ray Field and Some of the Results Obtained With Them (1933) (14)
The Existence of a Subelectron (1916) (13)
The series spectra of the stripped atoms of phosphorus (PV), sulphur (SVI), and chlorine (ClVII) (1925) (13)
New evidence as to the nature of the incoming cosmic rays, their absorbability in the atmosphere, and the secondary character of the penetrating rays found in such abundance at sea level and below (1938) (12)
The most probable 1930 values of the electron and related constants (1930) (12)
A First Course in Physics (12)
Cosmic-ray ionization and electroscope-constants as a function of pressure (1932) (12)
On the Question of the Constancy of the Cosmic Radiation and the Relation of these Rays to Meteorology (1930) (11)
The series spectra of two-valence-electron atoms of phosphorus (PIV), sulphur (SV), and chlorine (ClVI) (1925) (11)
The Assignment of Lines and Term Values in Beryllium II and Carbon IV (1924) (11)
High frequency rays of cosmic origin II. Mountain peak and airplane observations (1926) (11)
A Hypothesis as to the Origin of Cosmic Rays and Its Experimental Testing in India and Elsewhere (1942) (10)
XII. The influence of temperature upon photo-electric effects in a very high vacuum, and the order of photo-electric sensitiveness of the metals (1907) (9)
Further Studies on the Origin of Cosmic Rays Helium Annihilation Rays and the Cause of Their Variability with Time (1944) (9)
The Present Status of the Evidence for the Atom-Annihilation Hypothesis (1949) (9)
THE NEW OPPORTUNITY IN SCIENCE. (1919) (9)
Series spectra of two-valence-electron atoms of boron (BII) and carbon (CIII) (1925) (9)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RADIUM. (1921) (9)
The Vacuum-Spark Spectra in the Extreme Ultra-Violet of Carbon, Iron, and Nickel. (1921) (8)
The Series Spectra of the Stripped Boron Atom (BIII). (1924) (8)
Some facts bearing on the structure of atoms, particularly of the helium atom (1921) (8)
Science and the new civilization (8)
College Art Association (1937) (8)
The Further Extension of the Ultra-violet Spectrum and the Progression with Atomic Number of the Spectra of Light Elements. (1921) (8)
Relations of pp′ groups in atoms of the same electronic structure (1925) (7)
Evolution In Science And Religion (7)
Further tests of the atom-annihilation hypothesis as to the origin of the cosmic rays (1943) (7)
Evidence for the Continuous Creation of the Common Elements Out of Positive and Negative Electrons. (1928) (7)
On the charge carried by the negative ion of an ionized gas (1908) (7)
Faraday lecture. Atomism in modern physics (7)
Effect of Residual Gases on Contact E.M.F.'s and Photo-Currents (1914) (7)
History of Research in Cosmic Rays. (1930) (6)
Mesotron as the name of the new particle (1939) (6)
Some conspicuous successes of the Bohr atom and a serious difficulty (1924) (6)
ADDRESSES AT THE DINNER IN HIS HONOR. (1931) (6)
The latitude effect in cosmic rays at altitudes up to 29,000 feet (1936) (5)
Experimental Evidence for the Essential Identity of the Selective and Normal Photo-Electric Effects. (5)
Theoretical Considerations relating to the Single-Lined and the Many-Lined Spectrum of Mercury (1917) (5)
Mechanics, Molecular Physics and Heat (5)
XC. On the question of valency in gaseous ionization (1911) (5)
A first course in physics for colleges (5)
Evidence That the Cosmic Rays Originate in Interstellar Space. (1928) (5)
Present Status of Theory and Experiment as to Atomic Disintegration and Atomic Synthesis.* (1931) (5)
WHAT TO BELIEVE ABOUT COSMIC RAYS. (1935) (5)
SOME SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF THE METEOROLOGICAL WORK OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY1 (1919) (5)
Stokes' Law of Fall Completely Corrected. (1923) (5)
Series spectra of beryllium, Bei and Beii (1926) (4)
Cosmic-ray intensities in the stratosphere (1933) (4)
On the Reflection and Re-emission of Electrons from Metal Surfaces: and a Method of Measuring the Ionizing Potential of Such Surfaces. (4)
Quantum Relations in Photo-Electric Phenomena. (1916) (4)
XXIX. The fine structure of the nitrogen, oxygen, and fluorine lines in the extreme ultra-violet (1924) (4)
XCII. A possible reconciliation of Bohr's interpenetration ideas with Sommerfeld's relativistic treatment of electron orbits (1925) (4)
Albert Abraham Michelson (1939) (4)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RECENT COSMIC-RAY EXPERIMENTS. (1930) (4)
The Origin of the Cosmic Ray (1928) (3)
SYMPOSIUM ON THE PURPOSE AND ORGANIZATION OF PHYSIOS TEACHING IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS (1909) (3)
L. Spectral relationships of lines arising from the atoms of the first row of the periodic table (1927) (3)
Franklin's Discovery of the Electron (1948) (3)
Similarity between Cosmic Rays and Gamma Rays. (1931) (3)
Erratum: Precision Cosmic-Ray Measurements up to Within a Percent or Two of the Top of the Atmosphere (1936) (3)
Contributions to a British Association Discussion on the Evolution of the Universe. (1931) (3)
Energy Relationships and Ionization Potentials of Atoms of the First Row of the Periodic Table in All Stages of Ionization. (1927) (3)
A Re-determination of the Value of the Electron and of Related Constants. (1917) (3)
ADDRESS OF ACCEPTANCE OF THE NORMAN BRIDGE LABORATORY OF PHYSICS. (1922) (3)
New Evidence for a Change with Time of the Total Energy Brought into the Earth by Cosmic Rays (1939) (3)
The nature of the evidence for the divisibility of the electron (1925) (3)
Remarks on the History of Cosmic Radiation (1930) (3)
PRESENT STATUS OF THEORY AND EXPERIMENT AS TO ATOMIC DISINTEGRATION AND ATOMIC SYNTHESIS. (1931) (3)
Stripped yttrium (YIII) and zirconium (ZrIV) (1926) (3)
The National Research Council of the United States (1916) (3)
DIRECT EVIDENCE OF ATOM BUILDING. (1928) (3)
RECHERCHES SUR LES SUBSTANCES RADIOACTIVIES (1904) (2)
THE REASON AND THE RESULTS OF DR. EINSTEIN'S VISIT TO THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. (1931) (2)
Contributions of physical science. (2)
THE RELATION OF SCIENCE TO INDUSTRY. (1929) (2)
Rays of Positive Electricity and their Application to Chemical Analysis . By Sir J. J. Thomson. Longmans, Green & Co. 1913. Pp. vi+132. Price, $1.40 (1914) (2)
Stripped oxygen, OVI, the pp' group in OV, and new aluminum lines in the extreme ultra-violet (1926) (2)
Benjamin Franklin as a Scientist (1941) (2)
The Practical Value of Pure Science (1924) (2)
Science and Life (2)
THE PROBLEM OF SCIENCE TEACHING IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS (1925) (2)
THE ELIMINATION OF WASTE IN THE TEACHING OF HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE1 (1916) (2)
THE PHYSICIST'S PRESENT CONCEPTION OF AN ATOM. (1924) (2)
Electrical Nature of Matter and Radioactivity (1907) (2)
A Laboratory Course in Physics for Secondary Schools (2)
HIGH FREQUENCY RAYS OF COSMIC ORIGIN. (2)
Report of the Advisory Committee in Seismology (1927) (1)
Obtention d'un ion isol, mesure prcise de sa charge; correction la loi de Stokes (1910) (1)
The Question of Valency in Gaseous Ionization (1911) (1)
Science and Society (1923) (1)
A Better World or No World (1950) (1)
THREE FOURTHS OF AN OCTAVE FARTHER IN THE ULTRA-VIOLET. (1919) (1)
FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. (1929) (1)
The Significance of the Discovery of X-Ray Laws in the Field of Optics. (1925) (1)
Radiation and the Electron (1917) (1)
Further experiments on the uniformity of distribution of the cosmic radiation (1932) (1)
SCIENCE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS1 (1917) (1)
Studies in Radioactivity (1913) (1)
Exploring the stratosphere for new electrical effects (1937) (1)
The place of science in the modern world (1930) (1)
Albert Einstein on his 70th birthday (1949) (1)
Mouvements browniens dans les gaz aux basses pressions (1)
Sur les rayons cosmiques (1933) (1)
Available Energy: Messel Medal Address (1928) (1)
Rays of Positive Electricity and their Application to Chemical Analysis. By SIR J. J. THOMSON. Longmans, Green & Co. 1913. Pp. vi+132. Price, $1.40 (1914) (1)
Research in America after the War (1918) (1)
THE TRANSPARENCY OF MATTER FOR X-RAYS NOT AFFECTED BY TRANSVERSE RADIATION FROM A SECOND TUBE (1909) (1)
Equatorial Longitude Effects on Cosmic Rays. (1935) (1)
PRESENT TENDENCIES IN THE TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY PHYSICS (1906) (1)
The interchange of men of science. (1947) (1)
MICHELSON'S ECONOMIC VALUE. (1929) (1)
Albert A. Michelson (1931) (1)
Series Spectra of Two-valence-Electron Systems and of Three-valence-Electron Systems (1925) (1)
Conduction of Electricity through Gases and Radioactivity (1911) (1)
Report of Advisory Committee on Seismology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1922) (1)
THE EVIDENCE THAT COSMIC RAYS ORIGINATE FROM ATOM-BUILDING PROCESSES (1931) (1)
Radioactive Substances and Their Radiations by E. Rutherford (1913) (1)
RADIATION AND ATOMIC STRUCTURE. (1917) (1)
RECENT BOOKS ON THE PHYSICS OF THE ELECTRON (1905) (1)
COSMIC-RAY LIGHT ON NUCLEAR PHYSICS. (1933) (1)
Scientific Books: Die Lichtelektrizitat (1915) (1)
HENRY ANDREWS BUMSTEAD. (0)
The Cosmic Rays and Our Galaxy 2.1 the Discovery of Cosmic Rays (0)
COSMIC RAYS (1934) (0)
Radios past and Future (1931) (0)
Measurement of the Nuclear Absorption of Electrons by the Atmosphere up to about Io10 Electron-Volts (1937) (0)
Report of Delegates of the American Geophysical Union to the Third General Assembly of the International Geodetic and Geophysical Union at Prague, September 3 to 10, 1927 (0)
Recent Findings in Cosmic-Ray Researches (1936) (0)
Preliminary Report of the Organizing Committee to the President of the Academy (1916) (0)
The Electron Theory of Matter (1915) (0)
AN EXPERIMENT ON THE MAGNIFYING POWER OF A SIMPLE LENS (1906) (0)
The Effect Upon the Atom of the Passage of an Alpha Ray Through It. (1919) (0)
Walther Nernst, a great physicist, passes (1942) (0)
HYPOTHESIS AS TO THE ORIGIN OF COSMIC RAYS AND THE EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF IT IN INDIA AND ELSEWHERE. (1941) (0)
Natural Sciences (1938) (0)
A Year of National Military Service Can Be an Asset to America (1945) (0)
THE CORRELATION OF HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE PHYSICS (1909) (0)
The New Physics (1915) (0)
In Praise of Trustees (1944) (0)
EDISON AS A SCIENTIST. (1932) (0)
The Service of Science (1934) (0)
Radiation and the Electron—II (1918) (0)
The Astronomy of the Atom (1924) (0)
Research in America after the war (0)
Atomic Energy Its Release, Utilization, and Control (1949) (0)
The Opportunity of the Physics Teacher (1941) (0)
THE WORK OF THE WEATHER BUREAU. II. (1933) (0)
What Research Has Done For You (1948) (0)
Long Beach Earthquake and Protection Against Future Earthquakes -- Summary of Report by Joint Technical Committee on Earthquake Protection, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Chairman (1933) (0)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHEMISTRY AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. (1938) (0)
AN EXPERIMENT UPON COOLING THROUGH CHANGE OF STATE (1906) (0)
Trustee Henry M. Robinson Dies (1937) (0)
(Editorial continued from, page 54) Research Salesmanship : An Institute Problem (1935) (0)
Essays for our generation (1955) (0)
A GOOD LABORATORY EXPERIMENT FOR ELEMENTARY COURSES UPON “THE MECHANICAL EQUIVALENT OF HEAT” (1906) (0)
CONRAD RONTGEN. (0)
The Creative Intelligence and Modern Life (0)
Dr. Millikan's Message to the Alumni (1940) (0)
Conduction of Electricity through Gases and Radioactivity . By R. K. McClung. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co. Pp. xiv + 245. (1911) (0)
The Electron Theory of Matter . By O. W. Richardson, Wheatstone Professor of Physics at Kings College, London. Pp. vi + 612. Cambridge Univ. Press. 1914. (1915) (0)
Primary Cosmic-Ray Protons and the Atom-Annihilation Hypothesis (1947) (0)
The three types of cosmic-ray fluctuations and their significance (1934) (0)
PRESENT NEEDS OF SCIENCE INSTRUCTION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS1 (1920) (0)
Modern Physics (0)
Another Lesson from History (1943) (0)
Results of recent experiments on cosmic rays (1926) (0)
Science Today and Tomorrow (1929) (0)
The Progress of Physics From 1848 to 1948. (1948) (0)
The Ionisation Potential of O 11 (1926) (0)
Award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to James Chadwick and in Chemistry to Frederick and Irene Curie Joliot (1936) (0)
EKect ofMetal-Dielectric Junction Phenomena onHigh-Voltage Breakdown OverInsulators inVacuum (1960) (0)
George Ellery Hale (1938) (0)
REVIEW: X-Rays: an Introduction to the Study of Röntgen Rays by C. W. C. Kaye (0)
Cosmic rays : three lectures being the revision of the 1936 Page-Barbour lectures of the University of Virginia and the 1937 John Joly lectures of Trinity College, Dublin (1939) (0)
You can live forever : a study in genius and immortality (1953) (0)
A manual of experiments : to accompany a first course in physics for colleges revised edition (1938) (0)
Time and its mysteries (1937) (0)
International scientific cooperation during the 1930 s . Bruno Rossi and the development of the status of cosmic rays into a branch of physics (0)
Whither Scientific Research in Industry? (1935) (0)
The Constitution of Matter (1914) (0)
The control of the atomic bomb. (1946) (0)
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. (1919) (0)
New Light on Two-Electron Jumps. (1925) (0)
The Two Supreme Elements in Human Progress (1950) (0)
Albert A. Michelson, 1852-1931 (1931) (0)
Arthur A. Noyes (1936) (0)
The Isolation of an Ion.—III (1910) (0)
Development of Fundamental Concepts: Physics of the 20th Century (1945) (0)
Seasonal cosmic-ray effects at sea level (1939) (0)
Elements of electricity : instruction paper (0)
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE: Report of the Patent Committee to the National Research Council (1919) (0)
Dr. Millikan's Own Statement (1928) (0)
Spectroscopic Prediction (1928) (0)
X-rays and Crystal Structure (1916) (0)
IS WAR THE PROGENY OF SCIENCE, OR SCIENCE THE PROGENY OF WAR, OR ARE BOTH OF THESE SUPPOSITIONS FUNDAMENTALLY FALSE? (1943) (0)
Seven Great Discoveries in Twentieth Century Physics (1926) (0)
An Introduction to Engineering and Science Monthly (1943) (0)
Beyond the Atom by John Cox (1914) (0)
New elementary physics (1936) (0)

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