Biography:Robert Millikan

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Robert Millikan (1868-1953) was an American physicist best known for the oil-drop experiment, which measured the elementary electric charge. The result made the charge of the electron a precise physical quantity.

Millikan received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the elementary charge of electricity and the photoelectric effect. In the Quantum Collection, his name is linked with quantitative electron physics.

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Author: Harold Foppele


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