Robert Millikan’s oil drop experiment and other research he conducted at the University of Chicago have earned the university the designation of historic physics site. Millikan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923. On 30 November, the university became the 11th site to be thus honored by the American Physical Society (see Physics Today, May 2005, page 35).
The historic physics site designation is “part of our broader efforts to reach the public with a positive message about physics,” says Alan Chodos, associate executive officer of APS.
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