Anton Brugmans

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Antonius Brugmans
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Anton Brugmans (1732–1789) was a Dutch physicist who proposed a two-fluid theory of magnetism.[1] He did magnetism experiments by putting objects on water or mercury, using surface tension to make them float and magnets to move them. He discovered the diamagnetism of bismuth.[2]

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