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The Ripples from Edwin Hall's Effect: How a 143-Year-Old Insight is Shaping Spacecraft Propulsion.
- Source :
- IEEE Spectrum; Feb2022, Vol. 59 Issue 2, p4-4, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
-
Abstract
- Of the many physicists who didn't win a Nobel Prize, Edwin Herbert Hall is among a select group for whom the failure seems a particular injustice. On 28 October 1879, the 23-year-old Hall made a discovery that still reverberates today (and which would eventually lead to Nobel Prizes for four other people). Working in a physics lab at the newly created Johns Hopkins University, Hall saw a needle in a galvanometer gauge shift, indicating an electric potential that had no obvious cause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189235
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Spectrum
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 155186496
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2022.9706402