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Historical Development of the Study of the Effects of ELF Fields

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Biological Effects and Dosimetry of Static and ELF Electromagnetic Fields

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Consideration of the historical development of the study of biological effects of extremely low frequency (ELF) fields should go back more than 2500 years, when Thales of Miletus (600 B.C.) observed that a piece of amber could be made to acquire the property of attracting small particles by rubbing it with a piece of cloth. Five hundred years later Lucretius of Magnesia (95–52 B.C.) noted the power of lodestone to attract iron.

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  1. School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA

    Sol M. Michaelson

  2. Laboratorio di Fisica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy

    Martino Grandolfo

  3. INFN Laboratori Nazionali, 00044, Frascati, Italy

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Michaelson, S.M., Grandolfo, M., Rindi, A. (1985). Historical Development of the Study of the Effects of ELF Fields. In: Grandolfo, M., Michaelson, S.M., Rindi, A. (eds) Biological Effects and Dosimetry of Static and ELF Electromagnetic Fields. Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2099-9_1

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