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... Millikan's famous oil-drop experiment
... a long sequence of verifications were made as is proper. The
values for q* grew almost monotonically to the present accepted value.
Each successive measurement resulted in a higher value of q*, but no oneIt's hard to discount Millikan's effort when he was relying on Stokes
wanted to err radically, so each observer cooked his data to get more
in line with Millikan after which the next hero of science felt better
about his even higher result than he would have if no one had *ever*
reported a result higher than Millikan's.
...
Tom