Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953), American physicist and Nobel laureate. This image is one in a collection of thousands of portraits held in the Smithsonian Library’s Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. The portraits come in a variety of formats: drawings, woodcuts, engravings, paintings and photographs, and are a supplement to the library’s large collection of written works by scientists, engineers, natural philosophers and inventors. More portraits from this collection can be viewed on the Smithsonian’s flickr page.
