Robert Andrews Millikan
American physicist (1868–1953)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Millikan measured the charge of a single electron and won a 1923 Nobel Prize for it. The photoelectric effect was his other main gig—proving light behaves in weird quantum ways.
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Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect."
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