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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 1,392,360 page views. His biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). André-Marie Ampère is the 13th most popular physicist (down from 11th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from France (up from 50th in 2019) and the 2nd 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 13 out of 717. Before him are Alessandro Volta, Max Planck, Robert Hooke, Pierre Curie, Hans Christian Ørsted, and James Prescott Joule. After him are Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, James Clerk Maxwell, Evangelista Torricelli, Georg Ohm, and Werner Heisenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, André-Marie Ampère ranks 2. Before him is Jane Austen. After him are J. M. W. Turner, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Eugène François Vidocq, Lucien Bonaparte, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Ching Shih, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, and Georg Friedrich Grotefend. Among people deceased in 1836, André-Marie Ampère ranks 1. After him are Charles X of France, James Madison, Letizia Ramolino, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, William Godwin, Maria Malibran, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, James Mill, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, and Davy Crockett.

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In France

Among people born in France, André-Marie Ampère ranks 42 out of 6,011. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Philip IV of France (1268), and Eugène Delacroix (1798). After him are Louis XIII of France (1601), Édouard Manet (1832), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Auguste Rodin (1840), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), and Michel de Montaigne (1533).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, André-Marie Ampère ranks 2. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859). After him are Henri Becquerel (1852), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Henry Cavendish (1731), Louis de Broglie (1892), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Paul Langevin (1872), and Hippolyte Fizeau (1819).

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