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From: jmc@Gang-of-Four.stanford.edu (John McCarthy)
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Subject: Re: Modelling reinforcement
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Date: 30 Dec 90 00:12:42 GMT
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In-Reply-To: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk's message of 28 Dec 90 17:29:46 GMT

Curiously enough, Millikan came up with approximately the correct
charge on the electron in the oil drop experiment that Gordon Joly
claims he faked.  Picking over old notebooks is an uncertain methodology,
because not all the considerations for what measurements to
report are likely to have been written down.  By the 1930s,
the Millikan oil drop experiment was doable in undergraduate
laboratories.  Now those are the notebooks to look at!