What is "millikan"

Millikan is a surname, and may refer to

People:

• Bud Millikan (1920–2010), Maryland Terrapins head basketball coach 1950-1967
• Clark Blanchard Millikan (1903–1966), professor of aeronautics and son of Robert Andrews Millikan
• Glenn Allan Millikan (1906–1947), physiologist, inventor of Millikan oximeter and son of Robert Andrews Millikan
• Joe Millikan (born 1950), racecar driver
• Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953), Nobel Prize–winning physicist
• Ruth Millikan (born 1933), American philosopher of biology, psychology, and language
• Edward E. Simmons (1911–2004), aka "Millikan Man"

Places:

• Millikan High School
• Millikan Middle School
• Millikan House
• Millikan Way (MAX station)

Other:

• Millikan (crater)
• Millikan oil drop experiment

Millikan is a lunar impact crater in the northern hemisphere of the Moon's far side. It is located to the north of the crater H. G. Wells, and to the southwest of von Békésy.

The rim edge of Millikan is roughly circular and well-defined, but with some irregularities. There are some small outward bulges along the south and east where the edge has slumped inwards somewhat. The inner walls lacks a terrace structure that is seen, for example, in the smaller Cantor to the south. The interior floor of Millikan is relatively level, and there is a small, bowl-shaped crater to the north of the midpoint. Offset to the west of the middle is a low central peak. The floor is also marked by a number of tiny craterlets.