Gowin Knight
Physicist, Inventor
1713 – 1772
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Who was Gowin Knight?
Gowin Knight FRS was an English physicist who, in 1745, discovered a process for creating strongly magnetized steel. He also served as the first principal librarian of the British Museum.
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