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Born May 18, 1850 • London • England
Died February 3, 1925 (aged 74) • England
Notable Works “Electrical Papers” • “Electromagnetic Theory”
Subjects Of Study E region • electricity • ionosphere • radiotelegraphy
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
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Silvanus Phillips Thompson
British physicist and historian
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Aleksandr Popov, detail of a painting by P.D. Korin
Aleksandr Popov
Russian engineer
Siméon-Denis Poisson
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
Kirchhoff, Gustav
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist
Ferdinand Braun
Ferdinand Braun
German physicist
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Franz Maria Ulrich Theodor Hoch Aepinus
German physicist
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist
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Merle Antony Tuve
American geophysicist
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Lloyd Viel Berkner
American physicist and engineer
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Arthur Edwin Kennelly
American electrical engineer
Georg Simon Ohm
Georg Ohm
German physicist
Peltier, detail of a lithograph by Maurin
Jean-Charles-Athanase Peltier
French physicist
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John Canton
British physicist
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Adolf Slaby
German physicist
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician

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