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Title
Robert A. Millikan at Pikes Peak with Victor Neher's cosmic-ray electroscope
Contributing Institution
California Institute of Technology
Collection
Image Archive
Rights Information
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Description
Millikan stacked up some furniture to gain a little additional height for the elctroscope, to the amusement of his younger colleagues Neher and Carl Anderson.
Early '30s
Type
Image
Format
Photographs
Negatives
Identifier
ct1:743
http://archives-dc.library.caltech.edu/islandora/object/ct1%3A743

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