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The American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan was born in Morrison, Illinois. He taught at the University of Chicago (1896—1921), and at the Institute of Technology (from 1921). He also was director at the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics in California. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923. Robert Andrews Millikan died in 1953.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. With her husband, Pierre Curie, she discovered the elements radium and polonium and launched the study of modern physics. She died on July 4, 1934, near Sallanches, France.
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Albert Einstein and Robert Andrews Millikan with Marie Curie (her back to the camera), Leo Baeck Institute, F 5340H.