{"id":14962,"date":"2014-05-16T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T19:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14962"},"modified":"2014-05-16T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T19:07:11","slug":"not-a-one-trick-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14962","title":{"rendered":"Not a One-Trick Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/15\/millikan-einstein-and-planck-the-experiment-io9-forgot\/\">Millikan, Einstein, and Planck: The Experiment io9 Forgot<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I object to the [io9] headline for reasons beyond the cheap sensationalism\u2013 it\u2019s also overlooks half of the citation for Millikan\u2019s 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics:<\/p>\n<p><em>for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An important note that Millikan&#8217;s prize was not just for the oil drop experiment, and I am in agreement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~dg\/MillikanII.pdf\">this analysis (pdf)<\/a> does a convincing job in debunking this old Millikan-fudged-his-data idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millikan, Einstein, and Planck: The Experiment io9 Forgot I object to the [io9] headline for reasons beyond the cheap sensationalism\u2013 it\u2019s also overlooks half of the citation for Millikan\u2019s 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics: for his work on the elementary &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}