| birth_place       = [[Morrison, Illinois]], U.S.
| nationality       = [[Unitit States]]
| death_date        = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1953|12|19|1868|3|22}}
| death_place       = [[San Marino, Californie]], U.S.
| field             = [[Pheesics]]
| workplaces        =
{{Plainlist |
* [[Varsity o Chicago]]
* [[California Institute of Technology]]
}}
| alma_mater        =
{{Plainlist |
* [[Oberlin College]]
* [[Columbia Varsity]]
}}
| thesis_title      = On the polarization of light emitted from the surfaces of incandescent solids and liquids.
| thesis_url        = http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/1883118
| thesis_year       = 1895
| doctoral_advisor  =
{{Plainlist |
* [[Ogden Rood|Ogden Nicholas Rood]]<ref>Physics Tree profile [http://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=22787 Robert A Millikan]</ref>
}}
| academic_advisors = [[Mihajlo Pupin]] <br>[[Albert A. Michelson]] <br>[[Walther Nernst]]
| doctoral_students =
{{Plainlist |
* [[Chung-Yao Chao]]
* [[Robley D. Evans (pheesicist)|Robley D. Evans]]
* [[Harvey Fletcher]]
* [[Charles Christian Lauritsen|C. C. Lauritsen]]
* [[William Hayward Pickering|William Pickering]]
* [[Ralph A. Sawyer]]
}}
| known_for         =
{{Plainlist |
* Chairge o the [[electron]]
* [[Photoelectric effect]]
* [[Cosmic ray]] pheesics
}}
| prizes            =
{{Plainlist |
* [[Comstock Prize in Pheesics|Comstock Prize]] {{small|(1913)}}<ref name=Comstock>
{{cite web
| title             = Comstock Prize in Physics
| url               = http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_comstock
| publisher         = National Academy of Sciences
| accessdate        = February 13, 2011}}
</ref>
* [[IEEE Edison Medal]] {{small|(1922)}}
* [[Nobel Prize in Pheesics]] {{small|(1923)}}
* [[Hughes Medal]] {{small|(1923)}}
* [[Matteucci Medal]] <small>(1925)</small>
* [[ASME Medal]] {{small|(1926)}}
* [[Franklin Medal]] {{small|(1937)}}
* [[Oersted Medal]] {{small|(1940)}}
* [[Medal for Merit]] {{small|(1949)}}<ref name=Merit>
{{cite news 
| date              = March 22, 1949
| title             = Millikan, son, aide get medals of merit
| url               = http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/03/22/84201660.html?pageNumber=30
| newspaper         = New York Times 
| accessdate        = October 27, 2014}}
</ref>
}}
| spouse            = Greta {{née}} Blanchard
| children          = 
{{Plainlist |
* [[Clark Blanchard Millikan|Clark Blanchard]]
* [[Glenn Allan Millikan|Glenn Allan]]
* Max Franklin
}}                    
| module            = 
</ref>
| serviceyears      = 1917–1918
| rank              = [[Lieutenant Colonel (Unitit States)|Lieutenant Colonel]]
| unit               = [[Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps]]
| commands=
}}
| signature         = Robert Andrews Milliken signature.svg
}}
'''Robert Andrews Millikan''' (Mairch 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) wis an American experimental [[pheesics|pheesicist]] honoured wi the [[Nobel Prize for Pheesics]] in 1923 for the meisurment o the [[Elementar chairge|elementar electronic chairge]] an for his wirk on the [[photoelectric effect]]. He wis a [[Congregational kirk|Congregationalist]].<ref name="Millikan 1929">{{Who's Who | volume=1920-1929 | year= 1929 | surname= Millikan | othernames=  Robert Andrews | id=U240788  | doi= 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U240788 |type=was}}
</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060302191706/http://www.adherents.com/people/pm/Robert_Millikan.html The Religious Affiliation of Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan]. adherents.com</ref>
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