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Hans Christian Ørsted

1777 - 1851

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Hans Christian Ørsted (; Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɶɐ̯steð] ; often rendered Oersted in English; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Christian Ørsted has received more than 1,405,595 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). Hans Christian Ørsted is the 9th most popular physicist (up from 11th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Danish Physicist.

Hans Christian Ørsted is most famous for his discovery of electromagnetism. He was the first to notice that electric currents produce magnetic fields.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hans Christian Ørsted ranks 9 out of 851. Before him are Marie Curie, Wilhelm Röntgen, Stephen Hawking, Michael Faraday, Max Planck, and Alessandro Volta. After him are Pierre Curie, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, James Prescott Joule, Robert Hooke, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Hans Christian Ørsted ranks 2. Before him is Carl Friedrich Gauss. After him are Alexander I of Russia, Désirée Clary, Heinrich von Kleist, Henry Clay, Elisa Bonaparte, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Juliette Récamier, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Philipp Otto Runge, and Louis Jacques Thénard. Among people deceased in 1851, Hans Christian Ørsted ranks 1. After him are Marie Thérèse of France, J. M. W. Turner, Mary Shelley, Louis Daguerre, James Fenimore Cooper, Karl Drais, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Hans Christian Ørsted ranks 3 out of 1,032. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen (1805), and Margrethe II of Denmark (1940). After him are Niels Bohr (1885), Søren Kierkegaard (1813), Haakon VII of Norway (1872), Ivar the Boneless (900), Cnut the Great (995), Asta Nielsen (1881), Frederick IX of Denmark (1899), Björn Ironside (800), and Karen Blixen (1885).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Denmark

Among physicists born in Denmark, Hans Christian Ørsted ranks 1. After him are Niels Bohr (1885), Aage Bohr (1922), Ludvig Lorenz (1829), Ole Worm (1588), Martin Knudsen (1871), Henrik Svensmark (1958), and Lene Hau (1959).

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