Abstract
The temperature and magnetic field dependence of the electrical resistivity of nickel near its Curie temperature is calculated using a development of the de Gennes-Friedel model for spin-disorder resistivity that emphasizes the effect of spin correlations on sequential scattering events of point electrons rather than on the coherent scattering of conduction-electron wave packets. The calculated results are in good agreement with experimental data for nickel and explicitly display the complimentary roles of short-range and long-range orders in determining the dependence of the resistivity on temperature and magnetic field, respectively.