# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-hall
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:44:32.936Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-hall"
name: "Edwin Hall"
slug: "edwin-hall"
description: "Edwin Herbert Hall was an American physicist who discovered the Hall effect. He also conducted thermoelectric research and wrote numerous physics textbooks and laboratory manuals."
tagline: "American physicist (1855–1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PSM_V64_D380_Edwin_H_Hall.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1855-11-07"
deathDate: "1938-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump