Robert Andrews Millikan was born in 1868 in Mor- 

 rison, Illinois. He has received degrees from several univer- 

 sities in the United States and Europe for illustrious work 

 in the field of scientific research. At present he is director of 

 the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at the California 

 Institute of Technology. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel 

 Prize in physics for isolating and measuring the ultimate unit, 

 the electron, and for photo-electric researches. He has received 

 medals from various societies organized to encourage the arts 

 and sciences. He is author of volumes treating of physics and 

 related subjects. Of late years he has displayed particular in- 

 terest in the relations between science and religion, lecturing 

 and writing extensively on that subject. He is also keenly in- 

 terested in athletics ; and is said to have followed his son Clark's 

 representation of America in the high hurdles at Wimbledon 

 in 1923 almost as eagerly as his own experiments which led to 

 the measurement of the electron. Dr. Millikan holds fellow- 

 ship vdth the Unitarian Church; and is an active layman in 

 that body. 



