An American physicist and educator who lived from 1868-1953; born in Morrison,
Ill. He taught (1896-1921) physics at the Univ. of Chicago and later (1921-45)
was chairman of the executive council of the California Institute of
Technology and director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory there. He received the 1923
Nobel Prize in physics for his measurement of the Electron's Charge and his work on the Photoelectric Effect. He also studied Cosmic Rays (which he named), X-Rays , and physical and electric constants.