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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André-Marie Ampère has received more than 1,463,597 page views. His biography is available in 104 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 101 in 2019). André-Marie Ampère is the 20th most popular physicist (down from 13th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from France (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 3rd 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 20 out of 851. Before him are Robert Hooke, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Werner Heisenberg, Evangelista Torricelli, Henri Becquerel, and Enrico Fermi. After him are Erwin Schrödinger, Georg Ohm, Christiaan Huygens, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, James Clerk Maxwell, and Edward Teller.

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Contemporaries

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, Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène François Vidocq, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Adam Albert von Neipperg, and Georg Friedrich Grotefend. Among people deceased in 1836, André-Marie Ampère ranks 1. After him are Charles X of France, Letizia Ramolino, James Madison, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William Godwin, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Davy Crockett, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Maria Malibran, and Claude-Louis Navier.

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In France

Among people born in France, André-Marie Ampère ranks 54 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcel Proust (1871), Coco Chanel (1883), Auguste Rodin (1840), Madame de Pompadour (1721), Henri Becquerel (1852), and Georges Bizet (1838). After him are Romain Rolland (1866), Gustave Eiffel (1832), Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Charles Perrault (1628), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), and Sarah Bernhardt (1844).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, André-Marie Ampère ranks 3. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), and Henri Becquerel (1852). After him are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Henry Cavendish (1731), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Léon Foucault (1819), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Louis de Broglie (1892), Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), and François Arago (1786).

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