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

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Among all physical constants there are two which will be universally admitted to be of predominant importance; the one is the velocity of light, which now appears in many of the fundamental equations of theoretical physics, and the other is the ultimate, or elementary, electrical charge, a knowledge of which makes possible a determination of the absolute values of all atomic and molecular weights, the absolute number of molecules in a given weight of any substance, the kinetic energy of

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