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• FamilySearch ID: L7GD-GS7
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 13793856
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Famous Historical Figure
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Dover - DNA Family 028

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hall
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From FindaGrave:

Nobel Prize Laureate Scientist, Inventor. Working on his doctoral thesis in physics in 1879, he discovered that a magnetic field would skew equipotential lines in a current-carrying conductor. His development of a transverse electric field in a solid material such as wire carries an electric current and is placed in a magnetic field to the current. This principle was patented and became known as the "Hall effect" a discovery comparable to the greatest ever for how little was known about electricity at the time. Full details of his phenomenon invention was published in the American Journal of Science and in the Philosophical Magazine in 1880. He joined Harvard University, Massachusetts in 1895 and was appointed professor of physics, a post he held until his retirement in 1921. He continued his thermoelectric research at Harvard, where he also wrote numerous physics textbooks and laboratory manuals for world wide distribution. The Hall effect, is the primary circuit of an electronic ignition system used in magnetic field sensors, now made in millions and is the official standard for electrical resistance. More than a century after its discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1985.

Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7GD-GS7

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13793856

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
Famous People

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John & Elizabeth Hall of Dover, New Hampshire

Family/Spouse: Caroline Eliza Bottum. Caroline was born on 27 Nov 1851 in New Haven, Addison County, Vermont; died on 1 Jun 1921 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; was buried after 1 Jun 1921 in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]