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Edwin Hall

1855 - 1938

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Edwin Herbert Hall (November 7, 1855 – November 20, 1938) was an American physicist who discovered the electric field Hall effect. Hall also conducted thermoelectric research and wrote numerous physics textbooks and laboratory manuals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Hall is the 410th most popular physicist (down from 409th in 2019), the 3,005th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,712th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edwin Hall ranks 410 out of 851. Before him are Samuel Goudsmit, Yoshio Nishina, Otto Schmidt, Jacob Bekenstein, Nick Holonyak, and Georg Wilhelm Richmann. After him are Oskar Klein, Philip Abelson, Charles H. Bennett, William Watson, Lyman Spitzer, and Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Edwin Hall ranks 33. Before him are Vlaho Bukovac, Axel Paulsen, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Robert Koldewey, David Bruce, and Paul Émile Appell. After him are Alexandros Zaimis, Vsevolod Garshin, Xu Shichang, Eduard Meyer, Evelyn De Morgan, and Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. Among people deceased in 1938, Edwin Hall ranks 77. Before him are Cao Kun, Nikolai Krylenko, Valery Chkalov, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, David Riazanov, and Jukums Vācietis. After him are Gillis Grafström, Christen C. Raunkiær, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, George Ellery Hale, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Hall ranks 3,005 out of 20,380. Before him are Phillip Allen Sharp (1944), Henry Calvin (1918), Thomas E. Kurtz (1928), Matt LeBlanc (1967), Jonathan Haidt (1963), and Tracy Morgan (1968). After him are Jenna Dewan (1980), Bernard Malamud (1914), Eugene Nida (1914), Rob Schneider (1963), Tom Wolfe (1930), and T Bone Burnett (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edwin Hall ranks 82. Before him are Frank Wilczek (1951), Nathan Rosen (1909), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Edward Witten (1951), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), and Nick Holonyak (1928). After him are Philip Abelson (1913), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Robert W. Wood (1868), John Mauchly (1907), and Saul Perlmutter (1959).

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