Edwin Hall
Sign in to saveAlso known as Edwin Herbert Hall, Edwin H. Hall, E. H. Hall
American physicist (1855–1938)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1939
- Works
- 28
Top works
- An archaeological survey of the Old John Lake Area, Northern Alaska
- In the national interest
- The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut
- Eskimo Storyteller
- The Arnolfini betrothal
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1967
- Active to
- 2024-04
Discography
- Whole Oats1972
- Abandoned Luncheonette1973
- War Babies1974
- Daryl Hall & John Oates1975
- Bigger Than Both of Us1976
- Beauty on a Back Street1977
- Along the Red Ledge1978
- X‐Static1979
- Voices1980
- Private Eyes1981
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features
· 2010 · cited 27,013x
- SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique
· 2002 · cited 25,535x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,819x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,410x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,384x
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Key facts
- Born
- Edwin Herbert Hall , ( 1855-11-07 ) November 7, 1855, Gorham, Maine , US
- Died
- November 20, 1938 (1938-11-20) (aged 83), Cambridge, Massachusetts , US
- Alma mater
- Bowdoin College Johns Hopkins University ( PhD )
- Known for
- Hall effect (1879)
- Title
- Rumford Professor of Physics (1914–21)
- Predecessor
- John Trowbridge
- Successor
- George W. Pierce
- Awards
- Oersted Medal (1937)
- Fields
- Electromagnetism
- Institutions
- Harvard University , (1895–1921)
- Thesis
- On the New Action of Magnetism on a Permanent Electric Current (1880)
- Doctoral advisor
- Henry A. Rowland
- Doctoral students
- Harvey N. Davis (1906)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- PSM V64 D380 Edwin H Hall.png
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- date of birth
- 1855-11-07
- date of death
- 1938-11-20
- name in native language
- Edwin Herbert Hall
- Commons category
- Edwin Hall (physicist)
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Article
Edwin Herbert Hall (November 7, 1855 – November 20, 1938) was an American physicist who discovered the Hall effect. He also conducted thermoelectric research and wrote numerous physics textbooks and laboratory manuals.
Education and career