Millikan

How To Use Millikan In A Sentence

• One final irony: In 1950, at age 82, Millikan published his Autobiography, with Chapter 9 entitled simply "The Experimental Proof of the Existence of the Photon--Einstein's Photoelectric Equation.
• To the historian, the volume in which Millikan's paper appeared shows that physics in America was still a mixed bag.
• Normative teleosemantics can be construed as making a similar move: Here, it is those dispositions realizing the biological function of the mechanism of using an expression that determine meaning (where ˜biological function™ is taken to be something normative; cf. Millikan 1990, The Normativity of Meaning and Content
• Ironically, it had been Millikan's experiment which convinced the experimentalist-inclined committee in Stockholm to admit Einstein to that select circle in 1922.
• Dretske's view centers on the idea of representational systems as systems with the function of tracking features of the world (for a similar view, see Millikan 1984, 1993). Belief
• Millikan benefited from this trend and worked vigorously to accelerate it.
• The improvement and development of Millikan oil-drop experiment are presented. The inspiration to the quality education and teaching reform is analysed.
• This outcome necessitated the revision of the Millikan oil-drop value from 4.774 to 4.803 X 10-10 e.s.u. (revealing that systematic errors had been made in the measurement of the viscosity of air, a quantity entering into the oil-drop method). Arthur H. Compton - Biography