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The Seebeck effect is the phenomenon in which an electrical potential difference arises in a closed circuit formed by joining two different conductive or semiconductive materials when a temperature difference is created between their junctions. It was discovered in 1821 by the German physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck. Seebeck observed that when he heated one junction of a circuit made from two dissimilar metal wires the compass needle deflected and initially believed the effect to be magnetic. How