biography
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Magnus, Heinrich Gustav
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| male
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| lived:
| (1802–70)
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| biography:
| German physicist. As professor of chemistry at Berlin University he made important discoveries in the fields of acids and gases, and in 1853 he described the Magnus effect - the sideways force experienced by a spinning ball which is responsible for the swerving of golf or tennis balls when hit with a slice. |
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