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- Title
Pioneers in Optics: Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953).
- Authors
Casasanta, Cameron Varano
- Abstract
By repeating his experiment numerous times, Millikan demonstrated that the charge on a single electron was a constant, 1.592 × 10 SP - sp SP 19 sp coulomb, a number slightly smaller than the contemporary value of the elementary charge (1.602 × 10 SP -19 sp coulomb). Robert Millikan was an American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his experiments on the photoelectric effect and on the charge carried by an electron. The Millikan experiment was designed to determine the charge of an electron, an objective that had already been attempted by several other scientists, but never with such a high level of success.
- Subjects
OPTICS; NOBEL Prize in Physics
- Publication
Microscopy Today, 2023, Vol 31, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
1551-9295
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/mictod/qaac011