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Who was responsible for conducting experiments to determine the quantity of charge carried by an electron?

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Who conducted experiments to determine the quantity of charge carried by an electron?
* Rutherford * Millikan * Dalton * Thomson

The answer is MILLIKAN.

Robert Millikan, together with Harvey Fletcher conducted the oil drop experiment in 1909. It was done to measure the charge of the electron or its elementary electric charge.
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