Walter Maurice Elsasser was a German born American physicist, born in 1904 in Mannheim, Germany, and died in 1991 in Baltimore, Maryland. He developed the dynamo theory now accepted to explain the origin of Earth's magnetic field, proposing that electric currents circulating in the planet's fluid outer core generate it, and he showed how the history of that field is recorded in the magnetic orientation of minerals within rocks, work foundational to the study of paleomagnetism.
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Defining ContributionDeveloped the presently accepted dynamo theory of Earth's magnetic field 1 Connections
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1. Walter M. Elsasser - Wikipedia
Infobox, birth_date
20 March 1904
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Walter Maurice Elsasser (March 20, 1904
Infobox, birth_place
Mannheim, Germany
Lead paragraph [defining-contribution]
developed the presently accepted dynamo theory to explain Earth's magnetic field
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P570 (date of death)
died 1991-10-14
P570 (date of death) [year]
died 1991
P20 (place of death)
died in Baltimore
P27 (country of citizenship)
citizen of Germany
Wikidata item aliases (en) [1]
also known as Walter Maurice Elsasser
P27 (country of citizenship) [2]
citizen of United States
P19 (place of birth) [1]
born in Mannheim
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