He was a Ford Foundation Fellow at University of California, Los Angeles. During World War II he worked as a civilian physicist for the US Army Signal Corps while holding fellowships in physics at the universities of Idaho and Oklahoma. Īfter submitting over 700 job applications, he was offered a place in 1937 in the Physics Department of Dillard University, a private, African American liberal arts college in New Orleans. They had no children, but he was to reach millions of children through his popular science programs. He married the doctor's maid, Alice Brown. Due to the Great Depression, he worked as a butler for a wealthy Boston doctor for the next two years. Miller graduated with a Master's degree in physics from Boston University in 1933. His father was Latvian, and his Lithuanian mother spoke 12 languages. Julius Sumner Miller was born in Billerica, Massachusetts, as the youngest of nine children.
He is best known for his work on children's television programs in North America and Australia. Julius Sumner Miller (May 17, 1909 – April 14, 1987) was an United States physicist and television personality.
