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Sir James Alfred Ewing
1855 - 1935
Sir Alfred Ewing, in full Sir James Alfred Ewing (born March 27, 1855, Dundee, Angus, Scotland—died January 7, 1935, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England), British physicist who discovered and named hysteresis, the resistance of magnetic materials to change in magnetic force.
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