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MILLIKAN
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• MILLIKAN (noun)
The noun MILLIKAN has 1 sense:
1. United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953)
Familiarity information: MILLIKAN used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Millikan; Robert Andrews Millikan
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
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