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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 eponymous Hall effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Hall has received more than 126,137 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Edwin Hall is the 367th most popular physicist (down from 355th in 2019), the 2,425th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,239th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edwin Hall ranks 367 out of 717Before him are Louis Slotin, Anna Mani, Nick Holonyak, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, George Uhlenbeck, and Franz Ernst Neumann. After him are Ralph Asher Alpher, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Franz Aepinus, Carl Wieman, Maurice de Broglie, and Arpad Elo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Edwin Hall ranks 30Before him are Vlaho Bukovac, Narayana Guru, King C. Gillette, Evelyn De Morgan, Guido Adler, and Joseph Hellmesberger Jr.. After him are Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Eduard Meyer, David Bruce, Alexandre Darracq, Christian Bohr, and Alexandros Zaimis. Among people deceased in 1938, Edwin Hall ranks 74Before him are Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Nikolai Krylenko, Jukums Vācietis, Pavel Dybenko, Bernd Rosemeyer, and Nicola Romeo. After him are King Oliver, Emile Vandervelde, Otto von Lossow, Christen C. Raunkiær, Cao Kun, and Francis Jammes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Hall ranks 2,425 out of 18,182Before him are Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), John Glover (1944), Herbert Blumer (1900), Gene Deitch (1924), Daniel Inouye (1924), and John B. Kelly Sr. (1889). After him are Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Vesto Slipher (1875), William H. Seward (1801), Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945), Craig Venter (1946), and Melissa Leo (1960).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Edwin Hall ranks 74Before him are Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), Edward Witten (1951), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), and Nick Holonyak (1928). After him are Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Carl Wieman (1951), Edwin H. Land (1909), Robert W. Wood (1868), and Lyman Spitzer (1914).