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= Robert Millikan Dropping Ball Method = =#letemha= we =age= Robert Millikan's father (above), Robert Millikan (right). Born as the son of a Reverend, Robert Millikan gets a wang lead a very simple life working as Reverend and attending classes at a high school located in Iowa. After earning enough money, Millikan enrolled in Oberlin College in Ohio where he took classes in the Greek language and mathematics. Tried applying for a spot in Power Posse but was turned down because he couldn't bench 225.
 * Date of Birth- March 22, 1868**
 * - Morrison, Illinois . **
 * Year of Discovery- 1910**

Millikan was a man with three discoveries and had many breakthroughs in the field of science, specifically in the fields of electricity, optics, and molecular physics. Although these discoveries were great, none of them compare to his unearthing of the secret to the accurate determination of the charge carried by an electron. He was able to accomplish this feat with the falling-drop method. To put it simply, this method consisted of dropping small globules of oil over a magnet into the path of an x-ray. When the x-ray particles made contact with the oil, the charge would change causing the oil to fall slower, stay still, or even start rising. With this, not only did he determine the charge of an electron, but “he also proved that this quantity was a constant for all electrons thus demonstrating the atomic structure of electricity” (nobelprize.org).



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