oil drop experiment

This included the now famous oil drop experiment commonly attributed to his advisor and collaborator, Robert Millikan.

I did the Millikan Oil Drop experiment to find the electric charge on the electron in a sophomore physics class.

During the 1920s, Millikan, who is famous for his oil drop experiment, made extensive measurements of the mysterious radiation discovered by Hess.

Goodstein revisits the history of Millikan's oil drop experiment, which provided the first accurate measurement of the electron's charge.

The magnitude of the elementary charge was first measured in Robert A. Millikan's noted oil drop experiment in 1909.

At the time of Millikan and Fletcher's oil drop experiments, the existence of subatomic particles was not universally accepted.

Aside from the measurement, the beauty of the oil drop experiment is that it is a simple, elegant hands-on demonstration that charge is actually quantized.

Robert Millikan measures the charge of individual electrons with unprecedented accuracy through the oil drop experiment, confirming that all electrons have the same charge and mass.

The oil drop experiment appears in a list of Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments originally published in the New York Times.

Oil drop experiment: The history of published results for this famous experiment is an example given in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

It was used, for instance, in Robert Millikan's oil drop experiment and is used to suspend the gyroscopes in Gravity Probe B during launch.

The oil drop experiment was an experiment performed by Robert Millikan and Harvey Fletcher in 1909 to measure the elementary electric charge (the charge of the electron).

In his commencement speech, Feynman used Robert Millikan's and Harvey Fletcher's oil drop experiment to measure the charge of an electron to illustrate how selective reporting can bias scientific results.

There was even Millikan's Falling Oil Drop Experiment, though that skirted close to the modern danger of a term so long that the effect became named for its acronym: the laser stood for Light Amplified by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and only professionals knew the men who had invented it.