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unusual facts about Ernest H. Wiegand


Maraschino cherry

Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of horticulture at Oregon State University, developed the modern method of manufacturing maraschino cherries using a brine solution rather than alcohol.


History of the Book in America

Among the contributing writers: Hugh Amory, Georgia B. Barnhill, Paul S. Boyer, Richard D. Brown, Scott E. Casper, Charles E. Clark, James P. Danky, Ann Fabian, James N. Green, Robert A. Gross, Jeffrey D. Groves, David D. Hall, Mary Kelley, E. Jennifer Monaghan, Janice Radway, James Raven, Elizabeth Carroll Reilly, Joan Shelley Rubin, Michael Schudson, David S. Shields, Wayne A. Wiegand, Michael Winship.

John R. Wiegand

There is also a Wiegand interface commonly used to transmit the data collected by a Wiegand sensor in a card reader.

John Richard Wiegand discovered the Wiegand effect, a physical phenomenon in which a special wire, called a "Wiegand wire", can detect small magnetic fields.

Wiegand interface

The sensor in such a system is often a "Wiegand wire", based on the Wiegand effect, discovered by John R. Wiegand.


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