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Julius Sumner MillerFrom Chewiki Where There's Smoke They Pinch Back This article is filed under Characters. Professor Julius Sumner Miller (May 17, 1909 - April 14, 1987), was an American science populariser. He is best known for his work on children's television programs.
[edit] HistoryFrom 1962 to 1964, he was Disney's "Professor Wonderful" on new introductions, filmed at Disneyland, to the syndicated reruns of The Mickey Mouse Club. He is best known in Canada for his "mad professor" work on the 1971 TV series The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. In Australia, he had the hit show, Why Is It So? (his eventual stock phrase), which was broadcast from 1963 to 1986, and the 1960s program Demonstrations in Physics (also called Science Demonstrations when it was aired on American Public television). He introduced each episode of Demonstrations in Physics with the line: "How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, and boys and girls, and teachers? My name is Julius Sumner Miller, and physics is my business." Miller was also an occasional guest in the 1970s on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the U.S. 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, and since he was demonstrating real principles of physics (albeit briefly) they never damaged his credibility. Miller died on 14 April, 1987, of leukemia. In 1993 the Australian Science Foundation for Physics established the Julius Sumner Miller Fellowship in his memory. The fellowship is currently held by Karl Kruszelnicki ("Doctor Karl"). His widow, Alice, also created the Julius Sumner Miller Foundation in 1998. [edit] Usage[edit] First Used in a Poop by[edit] Quotes
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