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André-Marie Ampère (UK: / ˈ ɒ̃ p ɛər, ˈ æ m p ɛər /, US: / ˈ æ m p ɪər /, French: [ɑ̃dʁe maʁi ɑ̃pɛʁ]; 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
Jun 6, 2024 · André-Marie Ampère (born January 20, 1775, Lyon, France—died June 10, 1836, Marseille) was a French physicist who founded and named the science of electrodynamics, now known as electromagnetism. His name endures in everyday life in the ampere, the unit for measuring electric current.
André-Marie Ampère made the revolutionary discovery that a wire carrying electric current can attract or repel another wire next to it that's also carrying electric current. The attraction is magnetic, but no magnets are necessary for the effect to be seen.
André Marie Ampère, (born Jan. 22, 1775, Lyon, France—died June 10, 1836, Marseille), French physicist, founder of the science of electromagnetism. A prodigy who mastered the entire known field of mathematics by age 12, he became a professor of physics, chemistry, and mathematics.
Jun 9, 2017 · The Newton of electricity. In 1826 he published “The Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena Deduced Solely from Experiment”, a book in which he states that “magnetism is electricity in motion” and “magnetic phenomena depend only on the existence and motion of electrical charges”.
The SI base unit of electric current, the Ampère, which is often shortened to amp, was named in honor of André-Marie Ampère by the International Electrical Congress. One Ampère of current is equivalent to 1 coulomb per second.
Jan 20, 2013 · André-Marie Ampère made important contributions to the theory of Electricity and magnetism. His theory became fundamental for 19 th century developments. View ten larger pictures
1775-1836. French mathematician and physicist who made important discoveries toward the understanding of electricity and magnetism. Ampère proposed, with Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), that equal volumes of gas at the same pressure and temperature contain the same number of particles.
Jan 13, 2016 · In 1814 he was elected to the Institut National des Sciences. After Hans Oersted’s 1820 experiments proved the magnetic effects of electricity, Ampère attempted to formulate a combined theory of electricity and magnetism, thus founding the field of electrodynamics.
French mathematician and physicist who extended Oersted's results by showing that the deflection of a compass relative to an electrical current obeyed the right hand rule. Ampère argued that magnetism could be explained by electric currents in molecules, and invented the solenoid, which behaved as a bar magnet.
