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The Millikan oil drop experiment, published in final form in 1913, demonstrated that charge comes in discrete chunks and was a bridge between classical electromagnetism and modern quantum physics.
- Landmarks —Millikan Measures the Electron’s Charge
Robert Millikan’s oil drop experiment provided the first...
- Landmarks —Millikan Measures the Electron’s Charge
26 wrz 2023 · One hundred years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Robert Millikan for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect. Although he also...
This theoretical conception was developed in no little detail by Wilhelm Weber1 in papers written in 1871. The numerical value of the ultimate elec-trical unit was first definitely estimated by G. Johnstone Stoney2 in 1881, and in 1891 this same physicist gave to it the name the electron*.
One hundred years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Robert Millikan for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect. Although he also...
20 sty 2012 · Robert Millikan’s oil drop experiment provided the first clear measurement of the fundamental electric charge and thus helped cement the notion that nature is “grainy” at the smallest level. The first results came out in 1910, but the seminal work was a 1913 paper in the Physical Review.
Millikan noted that “an accident prevented the inclusion of data on potassium” (Millikan, p. 362). However, he was able to present data he collected for sodium and lithium.
Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
