elementary charge
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At Cal Tech, physicist Robert Millikan brought home the first of Southern California’s dozens of Nobel Prizes “for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
He was the institution’s first Nobel laureate — in physics in 1923, for establishing the elementary charge of the electron.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2021
The four will be based on Planck's constant, the elementary charge, the Boltzmann constant and the Avogadro constant, respectively.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 29, 2018
The smallest observed unit of charge that can be isolated is the electron charge, also known as the elementary charge.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
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