- 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.
- His mother was a Lithuanian peasant who spoke 12 languages.
- 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.
- 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)
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