. Practical physics. Fig. 261. Magnetic field about a circular coilcarrying a current. Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1836) French physicist and mathematician; son of one of the victimsof the guillotine in 1793; professor at the Polytechnic School inParis and later at the College of France; hegan his experimentson electromagnetism in 1820, very soon after Oersteds discovery;published his great memoir on the magnetic effects of currentsin 1823; first stated the rule for the relation between the directionof a current in a wire and the direction of the magnetic fieldabout it. The ampere, the practical
. Practical physics. Fig. 261. Magnetic field about a circular coilcarrying a current. Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1836) French physicist and mathematician; son of one of the victimsof the guillotine in 1793; professor at the Polytechnic School inParis and later at the College of France; hegan his experimentson electromagnetism in 1820, very soon after Oersteds discovery;published his great memoir on the magnetic effects of currentsin 1823; first stated the rule for the relation between the directionof a current in a wire and the direction of the magnetic fieldabout it. The ampere, the practical unit of current, is namedin his honor
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