1775 - 1836
André-Marie Ampère (UK: , US: ; French: [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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André-Marie Ampère has received more than 928,109 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). André-Marie Ampère is the 11th most popular physicist (down from 10th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from France (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 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, André-Marie Ampère ranks 11 out of 721. Before him are Michael Faraday, Wilhelm Röntgen, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Niels Bohr, and James Prescott Joule. After him are Ernest Rutherford, James Clerk Maxwell, Robert Hooke, Werner Heisenberg, Evangelista Torricelli, and Henri Becquerel.
1791 - 1867
HPI: 88.23
Rank: 5
1845 - 1923
HPI: 87.99
Rank: 6
1858 - 1947
HPI: 86.63
Rank: 7
1745 - 1827
HPI: 86.22
Rank: 8
1885 - 1962
HPI: 85.96
Rank: 9
1818 - 1889
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 10
1775 - 1836
HPI: 84.98
Rank: 11
1871 - 1937
HPI: 84.88
Rank: 12
1831 - 1879
HPI: 84.76
Rank: 13
1635 - 1703
HPI: 84.49
Rank: 14
1901 - 1976
HPI: 84.24
Rank: 15
1608 - 1647
HPI: 84.15
Rank: 16
1852 - 1908
HPI: 84.09
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1775, André-Marie Ampère ranks 2. Before him is Jane Austen. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, J. M. W. Turner, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Eugène François Vidocq, Lucien Bonaparte, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Ching Shih, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, and Étienne-Louis Malus. Among people deceased in 1836, André-Marie Ampère ranks 1. After him are Charles X of France, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, James Madison, Letizia Ramolino, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, William Godwin, Davy Crockett, Maria Malibran, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, Claude-Louis Navier, and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu.
1775 - 1817
HPI: 85.09
Rank: 1
1775 - 1836
HPI: 84.98
Rank: 2
1775 - 1854
HPI: 81.86
Rank: 3
1775 - 1851
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 4
1775 - 1844
HPI: 78.28
Rank: 5
1775 - 1857
HPI: 77.20
Rank: 6
1775 - 1840
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 7
1775 - 1862
HPI: 71.75
Rank: 8
1775 - 1830
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 9
1775 - 1844
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 10
1775 - 1833
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 11
1775 - 1812
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 12
1775 - 1836
HPI: 84.98
Rank: 1
1757 - 1836
HPI: 82.78
Rank: 2
1748 - 1836
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 3
1751 - 1836
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 4
1750 - 1836
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 5
1760 - 1836
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 6
1756 - 1836
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 7
1786 - 1836
HPI: 71.78
Rank: 8
1808 - 1836
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 9
1788 - 1836
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 10
1785 - 1836
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 11
1748 - 1836
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, André-Marie Ampère ranks 50 out of 5,234. Before him are Philip IV of France (1268), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Claude Debussy (1862), Claudius (-10), Michel de Montaigne (1533), and Gustave Flaubert (1821). After him are Auguste Rodin (1840), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Louis XIII of France (1601), Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Edgar Degas (1834), and Georges Bizet (1838).
1268 - 1314
HPI: 85.36
Rank: 44
1798 - 1863
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 45
1862 - 1918
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 46
10 BC - 54
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 47
1533 - 1592
HPI: 85.09
Rank: 48
1821 - 1880
HPI: 85.08
Rank: 49
1775 - 1836
HPI: 84.98
Rank: 50
1840 - 1917
HPI: 84.89
Rank: 51
1863 - 1937
HPI: 84.78
Rank: 52
1601 - 1643
HPI: 84.74
Rank: 53
1585 - 1642
HPI: 84.64
Rank: 54
1834 - 1917
HPI: 84.54
Rank: 55
1838 - 1875
HPI: 84.52
Rank: 56
Among physicists born in France, André-Marie Ampère ranks 1. After him are Henri Becquerel (1852), Pierre Curie (1859), Louis de Broglie (1892), Henry Cavendish (1731), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), and Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774).
1775 - 1836
HPI: 84.98
Rank: 1
1852 - 1908
HPI: 84.09
Rank: 2
1859 - 1906
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 3
1892 - 1987
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 4
1731 - 1810
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 5
1736 - 1806
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 6
1819 - 1868
HPI: 79.16
Rank: 7
1900 - 1958
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 8
1792 - 1843
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 76.25
Rank: 10
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 11
1774 - 1862
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 12