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Remembering the oil-drop experiment

2007/05/01 by Michael Perry · 1 citation
Engineering · #Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics

paper · doi:10.1063/1.2743125

openalex publication_date 2007/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Abstract

In their memoirs, Robert Millikan and Harvey Fletcher describe what happened during the months leading up to their now-famous measurements on charged droplets. But intriguing differences in the accounts make it unclear just who made the key contributions.

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