Robert Millikan Death Cause and Date

Robert Millikan's Death

Born (Birthday) March 22, 1868

Death Date December 19, 1953

Age of Death 85 years

Cause of Death Heart Attack

Profession Physicist

The physicist Robert Millikan died at the age of 85. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Physicist who became the second American to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his work measuring the charge of the electron. He coined the term “cosmic rays” to describe radiation of extraterrestrial origins.

He was born in Morrison, Illinois, and went to high school in Maquoketa, Iowa. His father was a Congregational minister and his mother was a former dean at a small college.