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Robert Millikan and Harvey Fletcher were two physicists now known for discovering the mass and the charge of the electron. They did this through their famous "Oil Drop Experiment" in which they hovered electrically charged droplets of oil in a chamber with an electric field applied. This video covers the history of Millikan and Fletcher, and discusses some controversies that followed the experiment. Millikan won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for this experiment.