Experiment Proving Electrons Have Same Mass & Charge

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Which experiment describes that electrons have same mass and same charge?
 
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yoseeta said:
Which experiment describes that electrons have same mass and same charge?

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The Thomson experiment measured the mass to charge ratio of the electron. The Millikan oil drop experiment measured the charge, and therefor the mass. Thinking through what I recall of the analyses of both experiments, it might be possible that they would miss electrons coming in masses and charges of me and e, or 2me and 2e, etc.

Beyond that, I cannot name other experiments. One that measured the mass independently of the charge would clinch it. If there were none done by the time quantum mechanics was being worked out, any variation in mass would surely have come out in all the experimentation and calculation involving rest and relativistic energies of electrons.
 
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