Ampère

André Marie Ampère

Born: 20 Jan 1775 in Lyon, France
Died: 10 June 1836 in Marseilles, France

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André Ampère was a Professor at the École Polytechnique from 1814 to 1828 and then at Université de France from 1826 until his death. He worked on electromagnetism and analysis. He also made contributions to line geometry extending ideas of Binet.

Ampère attempted to give a combined theory of electricity and magnetism in the early 1820's. He formulated a circuit force law and treated magnetism by postulating small closed circuits inside the magnetised substance. This approach became fundamental for the 19th Century.

Ampère's most important publication is Memoir on the
Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience (1827).

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. L de Launay, Le grand Ampère (Paris, 1925).
  4. C Blondel, A.-M. Ampere et la creation de l'electrodynamique (1820-1827) (Paris, 1982).
  5. J R Hofmann, André Marie Ampère (Oxford, 1995).
  6. L P Williams, Andre-Marie Ampere, Scientific American 260 (1989), 72-79.
  7. C A Valson, La vie et les travaux d'Andre- Marie Ampere (Lyon, 1886). 
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