Talk:Julius Sumner Miller

message: It should be noted of what he died of.ChuckDizzle 03:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: misc

message: I remember watching his shows in school. One thing that stood out was how his experiments didn't always go quite as planned. Does anyone else recall this as well?Jlujan69 00:11, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Haha yeah. He always like "That didn't go as planned. Let's try this again." The only video we saw of him was when he was doing Bernoulli's laws. It was probably the most fun I ever had in physics class (this year and last year). Nishkid64 21:04, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  an addition proposal 

message: I was fortunate to become friendly with JS Miller in the last years of his life, and he left us with many sayings. However, I doubt that the term 'Cadbury' for someone who gets inebriated after "a glass and a half" of alcohol has anything to do with the Prof, as Cadbury used the slogan "a glass and a half of rich, full-cream milk" for many years before Miller did Cadbury commercials. It's a classic bit of Australian advertising. I believe that the reference to the saying, as it now stands, should only remain if the Wikipedian who wrote it, or someone else, can actually connect that saying to Miller. Alpheus 13:23, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glass and a half 

message: Is it likely that he was Jewish?  I'm having a difficult time finding out his ethnic backround only that he comes from "Lithuanian and Latvian" backgrounds, but Miller sounds like a Jewish name.  Add to that the fact that he studied under Einstein.    —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.237.222.245 (talk) 09:55, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Meller instead of Miller can be a name for families from Lithuania and the profession of miller was not limited to non-Jews (Isaac Asimov's family had a mill). So not impossible. And there are Jewish Millers in the USA -- Philip Roth mentions this. Arthur Miller of course was a Jew.--Jrm2007 (talk) 04:44, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

text: Seems almost certainly Jewish, but I can't find sources stating this. Zacwill (talk) 16:12, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

text: There would have seen a sizable German minority in the Baltic states in the relevant time period. The name "Miller" is common among both German and Yiddish-speaking immigrants to the United States. Likewise, the name could plausibly be of Swedish ancestry. Even an English origin is very unlikely but not impossible, as a few British exiles did immigrate to that area. The surname alone would not be enough to establish nationality, and the "Latvian and Lithuanian" background could also mean Baltic German. Blkgardner (talk) 02:50, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Background

message: He's referred to as "Doctor Miller" at one point in the article, but there is no indication that he ever received even an honorary doctorate.  This should either be changed or a reference to his doctorate added. 71.129.149.229 (talk) 19:42, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Thanks :) -- Quiddity (talk) 22:21, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doctor Miller? 

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