Trivia

Studied under Albert Einstein and was a lifelong friend.

According to Julius Sumner Miller, while living in Billerica, Mass., he had "read the town library dry" by the age of 16.

University of Southern California School of Dentistry.

Fate delt him a blow by graduating during the depression and not being able to obtain a teaching job. He would submit 700 letters before landing his first job at a private school in Connecticut.

His mother was a Lithuanian peasant who spoke 12 languages.

During the 1980s Miller appeared in a famous series of Australian television commercials for Cadbury chocolate, using his stock phrase "Why is it so?", demonstrating a simple scientific principle, and describing how each block of chocolate "embraces substantial nourishment and enjoyment," and contained "a glass and a half of full-cream dairy milk." The ads were sufficiently popular to be played for some years after his death. While in Australia, Miller also appeared in ads for non-stick saucepans and Ampol petroleum which included demonstrations of real principles of physics, albeit briefly.

Julius Sumner Miller willed his body to the (1987)