Walter M. Elsasser

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Walter Maurice Elsasser (March 20, 1904 – October 14, 1991) was a German-born American physicist who developed the presently accepted dynamo theory to explain Earth's magnetic field. He proposed that this field results from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core.

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