The authors summarize their personal recollections of the beginnings of spin caloritronics and present outlooks for the near future. • The authors summarize their personal recollections of the beginnings of spin caloritronics. • We treat the history of spin-dependent Seebeck/Peltier and spin Seebeck/Peltier separately. • We provide 3 outlooks for the near future.
Bauer et al. (Fri,) studied this question.