"The Electron and the Light-Quant from the Experimental Point of View"
Lecture
By: Robert A. Millikan
Date: May 23, 1924
Source: Millikan, Robert A. "The Electron and the Light-Quant from the Experimental Point of View." Nobel Lecture, May 23, 1924. Available online at http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1923/millikan-lecture... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se (accessed January 28, 2003).
About the Author: Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953) was born in in Morrison, Illinois, and received a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1895. That year he studied at two German universities, returning to the United States the next year to conduct research at the University of Chicago's Ryerson Laboratory. There he performed the oil-drop experiment that eventually would win him the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics. In 1921 he...
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