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Hans Christian Ørsted

1777 - 1851

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Hans Christian Ørsted (Danish: [ˈɶɐ̯steð] ; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), sometimes transliterated as Oersted ( UR-sted), was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law. He also discovered aluminium, a chemical element. A leader of the Danish Golden Age, Ørsted was a close friend of Hans Christian Andersen and the brother of politician and jurist Anders Sandøe Ørsted, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1853 to 1854. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Christian Ørsted is the 9th most popular physicist, the 5th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 3rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Physicist.

Hans Christian Ørsted is most famous for his discovery of electromagnetism. He was the first to notice that electric currents produce magnetic fields.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hans Christian Ørsted ranks 9 out of 851. Before him are Marie Curie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Stephen Hawking, Wilhelm Röntgen, Michael Faraday, and Niels Bohr. After him are Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Albert A. Michelson, Pierre Curie, André-Marie Ampère, and Evangelista Torricelli.

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Among people born in 1777, Hans Christian Ørsted ranks 2. Before him is Carl Friedrich Gauss. After him are Alexander I of Russia, Désirée Clary, Henry Clay, Heinrich von Kleist, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Elisa Bonaparte, John Ross, Philipp Otto Runge, Juliette Récamier, and Louis Jacques Thénard. Among people deceased in 1851, Hans Christian Ørsted ranks 1. After him are Marie Thérèse of France, Mary Shelley, Louis Daguerre, J. M. W. Turner, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, James Fenimore Cooper, Karl Drais, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and Princess Augusta of Bavaria.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Hans Christian Ørsted ranks 5 out of 1,032. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen (1805), Cnut the Great (995), Margrethe II of Denmark (1940), and Niels Bohr (1885). After him are Søren Kierkegaard (1813), Harald Bluetooth (935), Haakon VII of Norway (1872), Frederick IX of Denmark (1899), Margaret I of Denmark (1353), Christian X of Denmark (1870), and Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Denmark

Among physicists born in Denmark, Hans Christian Ørsted ranks 2. Before him are Niels Bohr (1885). After him are Aage Bohr (1922), Martin Knudsen (1871), Ole Worm (1588), Ludvig Lorenz (1829), Lene Hau (1959), and Henrik Svensmark (1958).

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