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magnetism

[mag-ni-tiz-uhm] / ˈmæg nɪˌtɪz əm /


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Magnetism is a lot more than just things that stick to the fridge.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024

His prize was a book called Modern Views of Magnetism and Electricity which sparked his interest in radio telegraphy.

From BBC • May 21, 2023

On the day of the interview, Rubin welcomed us into her office at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, the same one she’d shared with Ford for decades.

From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2021

In 1873, Cambridge, like Oxford, was in the act of opening a state-of-the-art physics laboratory, and James Clerk Maxwell, the first Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge, published his momentous Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.

From Nature • Feb. 18, 2019

Merle had received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and been ensconced for two years at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Swann’s former haunt.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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