André-Marie Ampère - Wikipedia
WEBAndré-Marie Ampère (UK: / ˈ ɒ̃ p ɛər, ˈ æ m p ɛər /, US: / ˈ æ m p ɪər /; [1] French: [ɑ̃dʁe maʁi ɑ̃pɛʁ]; 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836) [2] was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
Andre-Marie Ampere | Biography, Books, Inventions, & Facts
WEBAndré-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 - Biography, Facts and Pictures - Famous Scientists
WEBAndré-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.
Ampere - Wikipedia
WEBThe ampere is named for French physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), who studied electromagnetism and laid the foundation of electrodynamics.
André Marie Ampère and his contribution to electromagnetism
WEBAndré 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.
The Pioneer Behind Electromagnetism - IEEE Spectrum
WEBJul 11, 2023 · The unit of electric current known as the ampere, or amp for short, is named after the founder of electrodynamics. Ampère, a professor of mathematics at the Collège de France, in Paris, developed a formula to measure …
Ampere: History | NIST
WEBMay 15, 2018 · The story of the ampere began when a Danish physicist named Hans Christian Ørsted discovered that magnetism and electricity were two aspects of the same thing. In 1820, he showed that you could make a compass needle deflect from north by putting it near an electric current.
André-Marie Ampère | Encyclopedia.com
WEBFrench 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.
Ampere | Definition & Unit | Britannica
WEBAug 8, 2024 · Ampere, unit of electric current in the International System of Units (SI), named for 19th-century French physicist Andre-Marie Ampere. It represents a flow of one coulomb of electricity per second. A flow of one ampere is produced in a resistance of one ohm by a potential difference of one volt.
Andre Marie Ampere - Encyclopedia.com
WEBAug 24, 2016 · André Marie Ampère (ăm´pēr; Fr. äNdrā´ märē´ äNpĕr´), 1775–1836, French physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher. He was professor of mathematics at the École Polytechnique, Paris, and later at the Collège de France.