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André-Marie Ampère

1775 - 1836

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André-Marie Ampère (UK: , US: ; 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. He is also the inventor of numerous applications, such as the solenoid (a term coined by him) and the electrical telegraph. As an autodidact, Ampère was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and professor at the École polytechnique and the Collège de France. The SI unit of electric current, the ampere (A), is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André-Marie Ampère is the 14th most popular physicist (up from 20th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from France (up from 54th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Physicist.

André-Marie Ampère is most famous for his work in electromagnetism. He was the first to propose that electricity and magnetism are two aspects of the same phenomenon.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, André-Marie Ampère ranks 14 out of 851. Before him are Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Albert A. Michelson, and Pierre Curie. After him are Evangelista Torricelli, Erwin Schrödinger, Henri Becquerel, J. J. Thomson, James Prescott Joule, and Ernest Rutherford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, André-Marie Ampère ranks 1. After him are Jane Austen, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Bahadur Shah Zafar, J. M. W. Turner, Ching Shih, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène François Vidocq, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Matthew Lewis, and François-Adrien Boieldieu. Among people deceased in 1836, André-Marie Ampère ranks 1. After him are Charles X of France, Letizia Ramolino, James Madison, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, William Godwin, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and Anthony of Saxony.

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In France

Among people born in France, André-Marie Ampère ranks 48 out of 6,770. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), Henry IV of France (1553), Pierre Curie (1859), and Denis Diderot (1713). After him are Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Édouard Manet (1832), Octave Mirbeau (1848), and Henri Becquerel (1852).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, André-Marie Ampère ranks 2. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859). After him are Henri Becquerel (1852), Louis de Broglie (1892), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry Cavendish (1731), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), and Albert Fert (1938).

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