biography
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Hall, Edwin H(erbert)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1855–1938)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Great Falls (later North Gorham), Maine, USA. He discovered the electromagnetic potential difference of conductors, now known as the Hall effect, while a graduate student at Johns Hopkins (1879). He continued his thermoelectric research at Harvard (1881–1921), where he also wrote many physics textbooks and laboratory manuals. |
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