Posted on 07/17/2020 8:48:33 AM PDT by C19fan
Robert Millikan’s name adorns buildings at Caltech, Pomona College and other institutions of higher education. He won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1923. And typical for a scientist of his time, he was a fan of eugenics and did not actively promote women in STEM fields. That’s reason enough to remove his name from a Pomona building with labs for physics, astronomy and math, according to a petition circulated among Pomona students, alumni and faculty, according to The Claremont Independent, which covers Claremont Consortium colleges including Pomona. The 1958 building was modernized in 2015.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
You thought it was about statues of slaveholders! Never was! It’s about destroying anything that is good in this culture. They are tearing down Western Civilization.
Reminds me of the Fraud early in his illegal reign touring somehere and seeing all the Presidents’ busts and saying, “Who are these guys?”
Pomona College graduates - LOL!
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Pomona College is actually in Claremont, CA...Not in Pomona...
Claremont is nicer than Pomona...
The problem here is that Robert Milikan was a giant in field of physics.
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Thanks for that information...
There is Millikan High School in Long Beach, CA...Named after him...
That school is actually in a “nice” part of Long Beach...North of Cal State Long Beach...
Yes, I know it’s in Claremont, part of the Claremont Colleges.
It’s just that these people are such NPCs.
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