Edwin Hall

Edwin Hall
Born	Edwin Herbert Hall (1855-11-07)November 7, 1855 Gorham, Maine, U.S.
Died	November 20, 1938(1938-11-20) (aged 83) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	Bowdoin College Johns Hopkins University (PhD)
Known for	Hall effect (1879)
Scientific career
Fields	Electromagnetism
Institutions	Harvard University (1895–1921)
Thesis	On the New Action of Magnetism on a Permanent Electric Current (1880)
Doctoral advisor	Henry Augustus Rowland
6th Rumford Professor of Physics
In office 1914–1921
Preceded by	John Trowbridge
Succeeded by	G. W. Pierce

Edwin Herbert Hall (November 7, 1855 – November 20, 1938) was an American physicist who discovered the electric field Hall effect. Hall also conducted thermoelectric research and wrote numerous physics textbooks and laboratory manuals.