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millikan

/ˈmɪl.ɪ.kən/

Traducción: Apellido propio, conocido principalmente por Robert Andrews Millikan, físico estadounidense que realizó el famoso experimento de la gota de aceite para medir la carga del electrón.

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C1formalcommonscientific/ˈmɪl.ɪ.kən/

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A proper noun referring to a surname, most notably associated with Robert Andrews Millikan, an American physicist who conducted the famous oil-drop experiment to measure the charge of the electron.

  • 🇪🇸Apellido propio, conocido principalmente por Robert Andrews Millikan, físico estadounidense que realizó el famoso experimento de la gota de aceite para medir la carga del electrón.
  1. American physicist C1 formal american scientific

    Robert Andrews Millikan, an American physicist known for measuring the elementary electric charge (the charge of an electron) and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

    • Millikan's oil-drop experiment precisely determined the charge of a single electron.
    • The physicist Millikan received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923.
    • Students often study Millikan's work when learning about atomic structure.

    🇪🇸Robert Andrews Millikan

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