millikan

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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.

• 🇵🇹Nome próprio que designa um sobrenome, mais conhecido em associação a Robert Andrews Millikan, físico americano que realizou o famoso experimento da gota de óleo para medir a carga do elétron.

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.

   🇵🇹Físico americano

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