C. P. Bean Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
A physicist who, with W. H. Meiklejohn, reported exchange bias in particles combining a ferromagnetic metal and an antiferromagnetic oxide. The interface introduces a preferred magnetic direction through coupling between the two materials. This showed that the contact between different magnetic orders can change how a material reverses its magnetization, rather than merely adding their separate responses.[ref]
New Magnetic Anisotropy by W. H. Meiklejohn and C. P. Bean. 1956 discovery report, pp. 1413–1414: exchange anisotropy