EP 46 · 35:56

Millikan oil drop experiment

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35:58experiment. It's a very famous experiment. Now Milikin won the Nobel Prize because he effectively blackmailed his graduate student to get a single author on the paper and in return the graduate student became the head of physics at the University of Wisconsin. So there was a tit for tat

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