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Robert A. Millikan

1868 - 1953

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Robert A. Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist who, in 1923, won the Nobel Prize for Physics "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect".
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