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André-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".
André-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.
- J.B. Shank
Beginnings. André-Marie Ampère was born into a well-to-do family in the city of Lyon, France, on January 20, 1775. His father was Jean-Jacques Ampère, a businessman; his mother was Jeanne Antoinette Desutières-Sarcey, the orphaned daughter of a silk-merchant. André-Marie’s parents already had a daughter, Antoinette, born two years before ...
André-Marie Ampère, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist. André 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 ...
Jan 20, 2013 · André-Marie Ampère's father, Jean-Jacques Ampère, was a prosperous man who owned a home in Lyon and a country house in Poleymieux, which is only 10 km from Lyon. Up till André-Marie was seven years old the family spent most of the year in Lyon except the summer months which were spent at Poleymieux.
His grave can be found at the famous Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. The SI base unit of electric current, the Ampère, which is often shortened to amp, was named in honor of André-Marie Ampère by the International Electrical Congress. One Ampère of current is equivalent to 1 coulomb per second. Although he was not the first person to observe ...
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André-Marie Ampère ( Lyon, 20 janvier 1775 2, 3 – Marseille, 10 juin 1836) est un mathématicien, physicien, chimiste et philosophe français. Il a été membre de l' Académie des sciences, ainsi que professeur à l' École polytechnique et au Collège de France . Autodidacte, Ampère contribue au développement des mathématiques en physique.
