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Also Known As	ε • elementary charge • fundamental charge

Topics

Millikan oil-drop experiment charge conservation electric charge electron physical constant gravitational constant electronic configuration dielectric constant Planck’s constant electron paramagnetic resonance atomic mass unit Boltzmann constant Bohr magneton universal gas constant Rydberg constant

Key People

Robert Millikan

Robert Millikan

American physicist

Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi at work in the wireless room of his yacht Electra, c. 1920.

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