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MILLIKAN, Robert Andrews. "A new modification of the cloud method of determining the elementary electrical charge and the most probable value of that charge," pp. 209-228 in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Volume XIX, Sixth Series, February 1910. London: Taylor and Francis, 1910. (The whole volume, approx. 924 pages, offered). Octavo, contemporary three-quarter black morocco. $1500. First printing. Millikan, in his famous oil drop experiment, provided the first definitive proof that electric charge is made up of elementary indivisible quantities, and that the charge is not a statistically averaged quantity. From his experiment, the value of e, the electron charge, could be readily determined. For his study of the electronic charge and the photoelectric effect, Millikan won the 1923 Nobel Prize for Physics. Also includes articles by J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and others. Small university stamp on title page of volume (not affecting Millikan article), otherwise fine condition. |
