Talk:Julius Sumner Miller

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It should be noted of what he died of.ChuckDizzle 03:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I have removed Asourdough.2005's extensive edits. They are interesting anecdotes, but they are obviously someone's personal recollections, so they should be labelled as such (e.g. made into a separate section, mentioning the source, e.g "Fred Smith writes..."). Also they can't be included if they're from copyrighted material. p.s. the edits are not gone forever. They can be retrieved via the "history" page. Rocksong 02:34, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

an addition proposal

I remember watching his shows in school. One thing that stood out was how his experiments didn't always go quite as planned. Does anyone else recall this as well?Jlujan69 00:11, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Haha yeah. He always like "That didn't go as planned. Let's try this again." The only video we saw of him was when he was doing Bernoulli's laws. It was probably the most fun I ever had in physics class (this year and last year). Nishkid64 21:04, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Glass and a half

I was fortunate to become friendly with JS Miller in the last years of his life, and he left us with many sayings. However, I doubt that the term 'Cadbury' for someone who gets inebriated after "a glass and a half" of alcohol has anything to do with the Prof, as Cadbury used the slogan "a glass and a half of rich, full-cream milk" for many years before Miller did Cadbury commercials. It's a classic bit of Australian advertising. I believe that the reference to the saying, as it now stands, should only remain if the Wikipedian who wrote it, or someone else, can actually connect that saying to Miller. Alpheus 13:23, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Julius and Einstein

I have never heard of 'Cadbury' being used as a reference to someone being a 'two pot screamer' either. However, I recall from my childhood TV watching in Australia that Julius may have been a student of Albert Einstein. I cannot prove this, however. He was a wonderful man to watch and deserves much more information and biographical content to be added to this site. Regards... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.239.199.132 (talk) June 2, 2007

Background

Is it likely that he was Jewish? I'm having a difficult time finding out his ethnic backround only that he comes from "Lithuanian and Latvian" backgrounds, but Miller sounds like a Jewish name. Add to that the fact that he studied under Einstein. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.237.222.245 (talk) 09:55, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Meller instead of Miller can be a name for families from Lithuania and the profession of miller was not limited to non-Jews (Isaac Asimov's family had a mill). So not impossible. And there are Jewish Millers in the USA -- Philip Roth mentions this. Arthur Miller of course was a Jew.--Jrm2007 (talk) 04:44, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Seems almost certainly Jewish, but I can't find sources stating this. Zacwill (talk) 16:12, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

There would have seen a sizable German minority in the Baltic states in the relevant time period. The name "Miller" is common among both German and Yiddish-speaking immigrants to the United States. Likewise, the name could plausibly be of Swedish ancestry. Even an English origin is very unlikely but not impossible, as a few British exiles did immigrate to that area. The surname alone would not be enough to establish nationality, and the "Latvian and Lithuanian" background could also mean Baltic German. Blkgardner (talk) 02:50, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Doctor Miller?

He's referred to as "Doctor Miller" at one point in the article, but there is no indication that he ever received even an honorary doctorate. This should either be changed or a reference to his doctorate added. 71.129.149.229 (talk) 19:42, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks :) -- Quiddity (talk) 22:21, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

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"In 1952, he joined the physics department at the then small El Camino College in Torrance, California (1952–1974), to maximum student enrollments due to his great popularity[3] and where he was instantly recognizable by his casual hair and horn-rimmed eyeglasses. Miller was intolerant of misspelled words and misplaced punctuation, "

Speaking of improper grammar, shouldn't that be: "to maximize student enrollments"? Unless we are to assume he joined during a period of maximum enrollment; in which case other changes are necessary.Flight Risk (talk) 03:35, 20 October 2024 (UTC)