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Name: William Gilbert
Birth Date: 1544
Death Date: 1603
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: physician, physicist

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William Gilbert was born in Colchester, Essex, England, on May 24, 1544. Although he was trained as a doctor and appointed court physician for a short time to both Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, Gilbert made his mark in the study of magnetism. His...
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The English physician and physicist William Gilbert (1544-1603), an investigator of electrical and magnetic phenomena, is principally noted for his "De magnete," one of the first scientific works based on observation and experiment. William Gilbert was...


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1544-1603 English Geophysicist and Physician William Gilbert earned his place in annals of science with the publication of De magnete. A landmark in the history of experimental science and widely influential, it records his pioneering researches on...
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William Gilbert, also known as Gilbard (Colchester, England, May 24, 1544 – London, England, November 30, 1603) was an English physician and a natural philosopher. He was an early Copernican, and passionately rejected both the prevailing...


 

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