Clark Blanchard Millikan (1868-1953) was an American physicist known for his work in experimental physics. He is best known for his research on the electron, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923. Millikan conducted the famous oil drop experiment, which provided precise measurements of the elementary electric charge (the charge of the electron) and confirmed the quantization of electric charge.

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