A New Modification of the Cloud Method of Determining the Elementary Electrical Charge and the Most Probable Value of that Charge

by Robert Andrews Millikan

$4,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

modernphysics. London: Taylor & Francis, 1910. A fine copy of Millikan’s famous experiment, later known as the ‘oil-drop experiment’, in which he first provided the definitive proof that all electrical charges are exact multiples of a definite, fundamental value—the charge of the electron. Millikan’s experiment is nowadays known as the ‘oil-drop experiment’ due to a

• Binding: Hardcover

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