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Photoelectric Equation Verification

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1915

Robert Andrews Millikan1915

Chicago · Science / Physics

Experimentally verifies Einstein's relation between light frequency and the kinetic energy of emitted electrons.

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Robert Andrews Millikan

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