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- Hall effect - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
production of a transverse electrical field in a current-carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field; conductor is ordinarily positioned so that magnetic field is perpendicular to direction of current flow and electric field is perpendicular to both magnetic field and direction of current flow; developed by U.S. physicist Edwin Herbert Hall in 1879.