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Robert Millikan:
(1868-1953), American physicist, best known for his work in atomic physics. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics for his famous “oil-drop” experiments, which measured the charge on an electron and showed that the charge exists only as a whole number of units of that charge.
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