André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère
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a French physicist, mathematician and lay catholic who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
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Born
20 January 1775 Lyon, Kingdom of France
Died
10 June 1836 (aged 61) Marseille, Kingdom of France
Nationality
French
Known for
Ampère's circuital law Ampère's force law Ampère's right hand grip rule Ampèrian loop model Avogadro-Ampère hypothesis Monge–Ampère equation
Fields
Physics
Institutions
École Polytechnique
adultbasic
France
era
1800+