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  • cur | prev 2026 NotTheMudGeometer (talk | contribs) . . (1,885 bytes) (+30) . . (THEY ALL COPYD THE LAST MANS NUMBER BECAUS HE WER FAMUS. I NO ALL ABOUT THAT) (current)
  • cur | prev 2026 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (1,855 bytes) (+130) m . . (→ What this is not: no apparatus failed here and no observer was at the threshold of anything. the fault is in the population and not in any member of it)
  • cur | prev 20 May 2019 the 26th CGPM (talk | contribs) . . (1,725 bytes) (+260) . . (→ e is fixed at 1.602176634 times ten to the minus nineteen coulombs exactly. it is not measured any more, so it cannot creep any more. see Le Grand K, retired the same day)
  • cur | prev 1974 R. P. Feynman (talk | contribs) . . (1,465 bytes) (+400) . . (→ plotted against time it climbs. when they got a number well above his they looked for what was wrong and found it; when they got one near his they did not look so hard. nobody lied anywhere in this)
  • cur | prev the 1940s a determination (talk | contribs) . . (1,065 bytes) (+90) . . (→ higher again. plotted out it looks as though the constant were changing, which it cannot be)
  • cur | prev the 1930s a determination (talk | contribs) . . (975 bytes) (+95) . . (→ a shade above the last one. the ones that came out well above we went back over, and found reasons for. the ones near the accepted figure looked right and we moved on)
  • cur | prev the later 1920s a determination (talk | contribs) . . (880 bytes) (+90) . . (→ we get a shade above Millikan. within the errors. published as it stands)
  • cur | prev 1923 the Nobel committee (talk | contribs) . . (790 bytes) (+140) . . (→ the prize, for the elementary charge and the photoelectric effect. deservedly, and the article should say so plainly)
  • cur | prev 1913 the viscosity of air (talk | contribs) . . (650 bytes) (+130) . . (→ and I am slightly wrong, which nobody has noticed, and I am in the middle of his working. he has used the best figure available and it is mine)
  • cur | prev 1913 R. A. Millikan (talk | contribs) . . (520 bytes) (+520) . . (created page; the charges on the drops come out as whole multiples of one small quantity, and that quantity is 1.592 times ten to the minus nineteen coulombs. the experiment is sound and I will defend every part of it)

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