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How do magnetic forces and poles work?
Discover how wireless electricity works and its usages
Understand the principles of diamagnetism
Discover how some elements escape the Earth's atmosphere and how some charged particles are stopped by the Earth's magnetic field
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Nikola Tesla
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George Ellery Hale
American astronomer
Thouless, David
David Thouless
British-born American physicist
Haldane, Duncan
Duncan Haldane
British-born American physicist
Hans Christian Ørsted
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Horace Welcome Babcock
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