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Index

Matteucci, Carlo 36

Matthes, Karl 71

Matsumoto, Goro 124

Matuyama reversed polarity chron 235

Maunder, Edward Walter 258

Maunder Minimum 258, 259

Maxwell, James Clerk 2, 3, 4, 21, 36

McFee, Richard 8, 66

mechanoreceptor 129

Menon, Abbè 44

Merkel, Friedrich Wilhelm 134

Mesmer, Franz Antoine 27, 28

Mesmerism 27

mesosphere 107

metallic electricity 33

metallic tractor 27, 29

meteorite impact theory 237

4-methyl-2-quinolinecarbonitrile 147, 148

2-methyltetrahydrofuran (MTHF) 151

MF azimuth 220

microtektites 238

Middendorf, Alexander Teodor von 134

migratory birds, magnetic compass 13, 173

Milankovitch cycles 271

Miller’s experiment 106

Millikan, Glenn Allan 71

Millikan, Robert Andrews 71

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (MEQB)

76, 77

Minoshima, Takashi 52

mobile wireless technology 12

Mochizuki, Masaji 72

monarch butterfy (Danaus plexippuis) 135

Montesquieu, Charles 40

Moses efect 63, 64

MRI-based electrical properties tomography

(MR-EPT) 14

Müller, Johannes Peter 34, 36, 37

mural 21

Musschenbroek, P. van 26, 27

Muth, Ernst 60

Nagelschmidt, Karl Franz 50, 51

Nakajima, Susumu 72–73

Napoleon I 33

national seclusion policy 40

National Toxicology Program 87–88

natural background felds 108–109, 108–123, 110

electromagnetic feld and resonance 114–116

lightning 111–114

natural fssion reactor 107–108

Naturalis Historia (Natural History) (Pliny the Elder)

22, 23

near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) 69–71

Neckam, Alexander 24

negative air ions 10

negative electricity 29

Neher, Erwin 40

Neumann, Eberhard 58

Newton, Sir Isaac 2, 26, 40

New York State Power Lines Project 81–83

Nile catfsh (Malapterurus electricus) 22

nitrogen 106

Nobili, Leopoldo 36

Nollet, Abbè Jean-Antoine 29, 44, 58

non-ionizing radiation 6, 10, 11, 15, 304

non-migratory birds, magnetic compass 155

Norman, Robert 24

nuclear magnetic resonance 65

nuclear magnetic spectra 153

Öberg, Per Åke 68

occupational exposure 308

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 243

Oersted, Hans Christian. 1, 3, 21, 35, 36, 88

Ogawa, Seiji 66

Ohmic dissipation 216

Ohm’s law 216

Olcese, James 133

optical radiation 105

“Optiksi” (Newton) 26

Opus Minus (Bacon) 24

Ordovician–Silurian (O–S) extinction events 247

Oudin, Paul Marie 51

oxazepine 147

pacemaker 74–75

paramagnetism 61

Pauling, Linus Carl 66

Pavlov, Ivan P. 38

pearl chain formation 59

perception 79, 123–125, 133–134

Perkins, Benjamin Douglas 29

Perkins, Elisa 29

Permian magnetostratigraphy 248

Permian–Triassic (P–Tr) extinction event 247

permittivity 56

Philippson, Maurice 55

photoelectric efect 2

phototropin 16

phytochrome 16

piezoelectricity 48

Planck, Max 2, 3, 17

Pliocene–Quaternary boundary 247

plume tectonics 247

Plume Winter scenario 249

Pohl, Herbert Ackland 46

polarity compass 156

polarization capacitance 55

Pollacsek, Adrian 49

Porta, Giambattista Della 24

positive electricity 29

Power over People (Young) 81

power spectra 114, 119

Prato, Frank. S. 154, 176, 257

precession 242