The electron: its isolation and measurement and the determination of some of its properties


The electron: its isolation and measurement and the determination of some of its properties

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ABSTRACT THE great advances in physical science that have been made during the past twenty years have been largely based on the idea that electricity, like matter, is not infinitely


divisible, but that there exists a definite fundamental unit of electrical charge or “atom of electricity” which is incapable of further subdivision, and that all charges, however great, are


integral multiples of this unit. While the great mass of experimental observation strongly supported this idea, it has been extremely difficult, as in the case of so many fundamental


theories, to obtain a direct and convincing proof of its truth. The Electron: Its Isolation and Measurement and the Determination of Some of its Properties. By Prof. R. A. Millikan.


(University of Chicago Science Series.) Pp. xii + 268. (Chicago, 111.: University of Chicago Press; London: Cambridge University Press., 1917.) Price 1.50 dollars net. Access through your


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Its Isolation and Measurement and the Determination of Some of its Properties_ . _Nature_ 101, 41–42 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101041a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 21 March 1918 *


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