biography
pronunciation:
[kair]
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| lived:
| (1824–1907)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow, where he was an assistant to Lord Kelvin. He then became a lecturer in mathematics at a teachers' training college, where he carried out research on light passing through electromagnetic fields, and discovered the effect that is now named after him. |
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