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Name: Robert Millikan Birth: March 22, 1868 Death: December 19, 1953 Country of Origin: Morrison, Illinois (USA)
 * Date of Discovery: 1910**

Robert Millikan, an Iowa raised boy, athletic, good looking, and very intelligent, taught himself elements of physics which sparked his interest in science. Although he enjoyed science at first he thought he was going to pursue a career in athletics until his high school teacher convinced him to go to college. He was accepted and did attend Colombia University. There his real education and future began. He studied abroad in Germany among the many things he did in college. He was offered a job in Chicago as a teaching assistant which he took because he wanted to help the youth of America. By being an educator he finally started writing his own book, which later became a textbook used by millions of student’s worldwide. One of his most important discoveries/experiments was his oil drop experiment. It determined the size of a charge on an electron and it determined the smallest unit or charge that is quantized. He eventually received a Nobel Prize for his work.