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Also Known As	elementary charge • fundamental charge • ε

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Millikan oil-drop experiment charge conservation electric charge electron physical constant gravitational constant electronic configuration dielectric constant Planck’s constant electron paramagnetic resonance atomic mass unit Bohr magneton Boltzmann constant universal gas constant Rydberg constant

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Robert Millikan

Robert Millikan

American physicist

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