Article ID: CBB000044272

Poincaré's role in the Crémieu-Pender controversy over electric convection (1989)

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Description “In the course of 1901, V. Crémieu published the results of some experiments carried out to test the magnetic effects of electric convection currents. According to Crémieu, his experiments had proved that convection currents had no magnetic effects and consequently they were not equivalent to conduction currents, that is they were not `real' electric currents. These negative results conflicted with those of well-known experiments carried out by other researchers, in particular with Rowland's experiments, and with Maxwell's, Hertz's and Lorentz's theories, which was more shocking. The publication of Crémieu's experiments raised a controversy which involved directly or indirectly some leading French and British physicists, and led Roland together with his student Pender to re-preform his experiments.” From the summary.


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Authors & Contributors
Ginoux, Jean-Marc
Christian Gerini
Ferdinand Verhulst
Smith, Andrea
Zahar, Elie G.
Szlachcic, Krzysztof
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Mathematische Semesterberichte
HOPOS
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
World Scientific
Springer Science + Business Media
Springer
Bloomsbury Academic
Birkhäuser
Concepts
Physics
Mathematics
Science
Biographies
Quantum mechanics
Philosophy of science
People
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
Duhem, Pierre
Cartan, Élie Joseph
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Sitter, Willem de
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
France
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