Edwin h hall biography sample

American physicist (1855–1938)

For other people named Edwin Hall, see Edwin Hall (disambiguation).

Edwin Herbert Hall (November 7, 1855 – November 20, 1938) was an American physicist, who discovered the electric field Hall effect.

Edwin h hall biography sample

Hall conducted thermoelectricresearch and also wrote numerous physics textbooks and laboratory manuals.

Biography

Hall was born in Gorham, Maine, U.S. Hall did his undergraduate work at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, graduating in 1875.

He was the principal of Gould Academy in 1875–1876 and the principal of Brunswick High School in 1876–1877.^[1] He did his graduate schooling and research, and earned his Ph.D. degree (1880), at the Johns Hopkins University where his seminal experiments were performed.

Discovery of Hall effect

The Hall effect was discovered by Hall in 1879, while working on his doctoral thesis in Physics under the supervision of Henry Augustus Rowland.^[1] Hall's experiments in electromagn