Robert A. Millikan House
Robert A. Millikan House | |
Tallmadge & Watson | |
Architectural style | Prairie School |
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NRHP reference No. | 76000699[1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | May 11, 1976 |
Designated NHL | May 11, 1976[2] |
The Robert A. Millikan House is a historic house at 5605 South Woodlawn Avenue in the
Robert A. Millikan (1868-1953), the period in which he made his most significant Nobel Prize winning work. The three-story brick building earned National Historic Landmark status on May 11, 1976.[3]
Description and history
The Robert A. Millikan House stands in Chicago's South Side Hyde Park neighborhood, northeast of the
Tallmadge & Watson and built about 1907. It is three stories in height, with a mainly brick exterior. It has a broad profile in the Prairie style, with slightly projecting broad gabled sections near the ends, and a narrower off-center entrance projecting. The full third level, and the second level of the entrance section, are finished in Tudor-style half timbering. Window placement and size are somewhat irregular. The building interior is relatively plain.[4]
Robert Millikan, an Illinois native who received the first Ph.D. in physics from
oil-drop experiment, which provided the most accurate measure of the time of the electrical charge of an electron. He also established experimental apparatus that was used to confirm the photoelectric effect postulated by Albert Einstein in 1905. For these works Millikan was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics. Millikan was seen then as one of the leaders of growing American dominance in his field.[4]
Millikan moved out of this house in 1921, when he took a position at what is now the California Institute of Technology.[4] The house remains a private residence.
See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois
- National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side Chicago
Notes
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "Millikan, Robert A., House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2008-03-03. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
- ^ National Historic Landmarks Program - Millikan, Robert A., House Archived 2008-03-03 at the Wayback Machine (2006). Retrieved 25 June 2007.
- ^ a b c "NHL nomination for Robert A. Millikan House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
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