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- Magnetic monopole - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
theoretical particle consisting of a single magnetic pole; in 1931 the English physicist P.A.M. Dirac proposed that the existence of even a single magnetic monopole in the universe would explain why electric charge comes only in multiples of the electron charge, but as yet there is no evidence for the existence of magnetic monopoles.