What Was Millikan's College Experience

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1) How was Millikan’s college experience and what was the importance of his graduate student position at Columbia? Millikan was very good at physics in Oberlin College, so he got the chance to help teach elementary physics. He was so good at teaching as well. Hence, he was appointed a tutor as soon as he graduated. Then he moved to Columbia University in New York City to his graduate studies. He was the only physics graduate student at Columbia at the time. Millikan completed his PhD for a thesis in optics and then went to Germany. 2) How did Marie’s husband, Pierre die and what impact did that bring into Marie’s professional life? Pierre slipped and fell under a carriage wheel and was fatally injured. That was a rainy day in April. Even