Millikan Experiment
Robert Millikan - American Physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
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1911
Millikan studied charges on oil drops in a uniform electric field.
He suspended the oil drops in the electric fields
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Millikan_Oil_Drop_Experiment.mov
Discovered:
1) Elementary Charge
= 1.6 x 10-19 C
2) all the charges in nature must be a whole number multiple of 1.6 X 10-19 C
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