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noun
A physical phenomenon in which a change in the magnetic moment of a free body causes the body to rotate, as a consequence of the conservation of angular momentum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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History
Named after physicists Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas, who jointly published the first observation of the effect in 1915. It had been predicted by Owen Willans Richardson in 1908.
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