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Observation of the Circular Components in the “Faraday Effect”

Nature volume 62, pages 368–369 (1900)Cite this article

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AFTER repeated attempts to determine the nature of the “Faraday effect,” I have succeeded in observing that ordinary light, when passing from a surface into a medium in such a way as to be under the influence of a magnetic field, is broken up into two circular components oppositely polarised.

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BRACE, D. Observation of the Circular Components in the “Faraday Effect”. Nature 62, 368–369 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062368b0

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