Edwin Herbert Hall (7.02.1855-20.02.1938) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1911). He was born in Gorham. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University (1880). In 1881-1921 he worked at Harvard University (professor from 1895).
His work concerned thermoelectricity, the electrical and thermal conductivity of metals, and thermomagnetic and electromagnetic effects in iron. In 1879 he discovered one of the most important galvanomagnetic phenomena — the appearance, in a conductor carrying a current and placed in a magnetic field, of an electric field directed perpendicular to the direction of the current and to the magnetic field (the Hall effect).