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Magnetism and spin

Magnetism and spin

A romantic scientist

28 Nov 2013
Taken from the December 2013 issue of Physics World

Hans Christian Ørsted: Reading Nature’s Mind
Dan Charly Christensen
2013 Oxford University Press £39.99hb 768pp

Photo of a compass needle
Moved by physics Hans Christian Ørsted identified the link between magnetism and electricity thanks to a compass needle. (Courtesy: TEK Image/Science Photo Library)
While giving a lecture on electricity, electrochemistry and magnetism in the spring of 1820, the Dan

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Anja Skaar Jacobsen has an ScD and a PhD in the history of science and is now a physics and chemistry teacher at Ordrup Gymnasium in Charlottenlund, Denmark
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