Chronology of Milestone Events in Particle Physics - MILLIKAN 1916
Chronology of Milestone Events in Particle Physics

  Nobel prize to R. A. Millikan awarded in 1923 "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect''  

MILLIKAN 1916

Millikan, R.A.;
Einstein's Photoelectric Equation and Contact Electromotive Force
Phys. Rev. 7 (1916) 18;

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Summary
The test of Einstein's photoelectric equation which I have considered and save in the case of the last, subjected to accurate experimental verification are:
1. The existence of a definite and exactly determinable maximum energy of emission of corpuscules under the influence of a given wavelength.
2. The existence of a linear relationship between photo-potential and the frequency of the incident light.
3. The exact appearance of Planck's h in the slope of the potential-frequency line. The photoelectric method is one of the most accurate available methods for fixing this constant.
4. The agreement of the long wave-length limit with the intercept of the P.D., line, when the latter has been displaced by the amount of the contact E.M.F.
5. Contact E.M.F.'s are accurately given by h/ e(0 - 0') - (V0 - V0').
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Related references
More (earlier) information appears in
R. A. Millikan, Winchester, Phil. Mag. 14 (1907) 201;
R. A. Millikan, Winchester, Phys. Rev. XXIV (1906) 16;
R. A. Millikan, Phys. Rev. VI (1915) 55;
R. A. Millikan, Phys. Rev. IV (1914) 73;
R. A. Millikan, Winchester, Phil. Mag. 14 (1907) 188;
See also
Page, Am. Jr. Sci. 36 (1913) 501;
W. Schottky, Phys.Zeitschr. 15 (1914) 624;
Kadesch, Phys. Rev. 3 (1914) 367;
Lienhop, Annalen der Physik. Leipzig 21 (1906) 284;
W. Schottky, Annalen der Physik. Leipzig 44 (1914) 1011;
Analyse data from
O. V. Richardson, A. H. Compton, Phil. Mag. 24 (1912) 592;
O. V. Richardson, A. H. Compton, Phil. Mag. 24 (1912) 572;
K. Ramsauer, Annalen der Physik. Leipzig 45 (1914) 961;
K. Ramsauer, Annalen der Physik. Leipzig 45 (1914) 1120;

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First conclusive measurement of energy quantization in the photoelectric effect.
    
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