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Millikan, Robert Andrews (1868–1953)


Robert Millikan
American physicist awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics for his determination of the charge on a single electron (the famous oil-drop experiment) and his work on the photoelectric effect. He also studied and named cosmic rays.

See also Einstein and the photoelectric effect.


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