Almost everyone who works in the electrical industry knows the unit for measuring electric current is named in honor of André-Marie Ampère Almost everyone who works in the electrical industry knows ...

It was a quiet September afternoon in Paris, 1820, when news from Denmark's Copenhagen reached Andr-Marie Ampre in Paris where he was teaching at cole Polytechnique. Hans Christian rsted, a Danish ...

ANDRÉ MARIE AMPÈRE was born in Lyons on January 20, 1775, and died at Marseilles on June 7, 1836. His early childhood was spent in the country near his birthplace and his first studies were directed ...

Ampère was playing with wires when he discovered a fundamental law of electromagnetism. Hans Christian Oersted had just discovered the connection between electricity and magnetism. Meanwhile, a French ...

ACCORDING to the Revue Scientifique of October 26, arrangements are being made at Lyons to hold an exhibition next spring in connexion with the commemoration of the centenary of the death of the ...

Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on unlined paper. Name and address of recipient handwritten on page 4. André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the ...

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