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Re: inertia of 'electron stuff'




Leigh Palmer writes:

Anyone who would claim that Hall (whose first name I don't even know)
is more famous than H. A. Rowland had better spend some time reading
history.

According to A SOURCEBOOK IN PHYSICS BY William Magie. Harevard
University Press, 1969 (Page 541-).
"Edwin Herbert Hall was born on November 7, 1855 in Gorham, Maine.
He studied at Bowdoin College and at John Hopkins University, where
he received the doctor's degree in 1880. In the next year he became
connected with Harvard University as an instructor of Physics. He
advanced until in 1895 he became professor of physics. He was made
professor emeritus in 1921. "

In his paper entitled "On a New Action of the Magnet in Electric
Currents",
published in American Journal of Mathematics, Vol.2 p.287, 1879 and also
in Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 9, Series 5, p.2235.1980 he describes the

phenomenon knows as the HALL effect. His paper starts ....

"Sometime during the last University year, while I was reading Maxwell's

"Electricity and Magnetism" in connexion with Professor Rowland's
lectures, my attention was particularly attracted by the following
passage
in vol. 11, p.144:- " etc etc

Herb gottlieb from New York City
(Where most of our physics textbooks give more space to the Hall effect
than to Rowland's lectures)