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Millikan, Einstein, and Planck: The Experiment io9 Forgot

 

I object to the [io9] headline for reasons beyond the cheap sensationalism– it’s also overlooks half of the citation for Millikan’s 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics:

 

for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect

 

An important note that Millikan's prize was not just for the oil drop experiment, and I am in agreement that this analysis (pdf) does a convincing job in debunking this old Millikan-fudged-his-data idea.
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