by Len Fisher | 2 Jun 2015 | Mini Stories from Science, Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing
Today (June 2nd) is the 102nd anniversary of Robert Millikan’s publication of his measurements of the charge of the electron. But he had a competitor – the congenial Viennese physicist Felix Ehrenhaft, a frequent host to Einstein and others. So how come Millikan got a...
by Len Fisher | 5 May 2008 | Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing
BBC “Today” programme A recreation of Robert Millikan’s famous “oil drop” experiment, in which he measured the charge of a single electron by watching how the movement of oil drops sprayed into an electric field changed as they picked up randm charges from the air....
