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Anton Brugmans

Antonius Brugmans
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Anton Brugmans (1732–1789) was a Dutch physicist who proposed a two-fluid theory of magnetism.[1] He did magnetism experiments by putting objects on water or mercury, using surface tension to make them float and magnets to move them. He discovered the diamagnetism of bismuth.[2]

Publications

  • Tentamina philosophica de materia magnetica eiusque actione in ferrum et magnetem, 1765
    Tentamina philosophica de materia magnetica eiusque actione in ferrum et magnetem, 1765

References

  1. ^ "Brugmans, Anton". Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography.
  2. ^ Gerald Küstler (2007). "Diamagnetic Levitation – Historical Milestones". Rev. Roum. Sci. Techn. – Électrotechn. Et Énerg. 52, 3: 265–282.


Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Brugmans