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Joseph Henry (1797–1878)
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Joseph Henry (1797–1878)
Physicist who was an early investigator of electromagnetism, he became secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1846. In that role, although opposing the Civil War privately, he became a reluctant adviser to President Abraham Lincoln on…
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