A unit of magnetic flux density in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to one ten-thousandth of a tesla.
Named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, the German mathematician and physicist who made fundamental discoveries about magnetism and electromagnetism in the early 1800s.
The gauss is named after one of history's greatest mathematicians—Carl Friedrich Gauss—so there's literally a unit of measurement named after a single person's genius! The switch from gauss to tesla shows how the scientific world standardized on new measurement systems.
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