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FOR several years it has seemed to us to be of interest to repeat the oil-drop method in order that this method may have an opportunity of contributing to the building up of the new value of the electronic charge, which is now going on. The only existing prototype, the famous oil-drop experiments of Millikan in 1913 and 1916, seems to predict an internal consistency somewhat less than that of the new spectroscopic X-ray and electron-wave1 methods. The first step in this direction was taken by Kellström2 when he re-measured the value of the viscosity of air (), which is fundamental for this method.
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Sten von Friesen, Uppsala Univ. Årskr., 14 (1935).
Gunnar Kellström, NATURE, 136, 682 (1935).
Wien, Harms, ” Handb. Exp. Phys..”, IV, 4, 523 (1932).
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BÄCKLIN, E., FLEMBERG, H. The Oil-Drop Method and the Electronic Charge. Nature 137, 655–656 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137655b0
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