Albert Einstein together with Wander Johannes de Haas made the proof of the correctness of Ampère's hypothesis through the Einstein–de Haas effect
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André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère 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 made also important contributions in chemistry and philosophy. He is also the inventor of numerous applications, such as the solenoid and the electrical telegraph. As an autodidact, Ampère was a member of the French Academ…
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science · French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836) · physicist · mathematician · engineer · philosopher · chemist · inventor · university teacher · also André-Marie Ampère, Ampère
Born 20 January 1775 · Died 10 June 1836 · Q675
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1836· 2 entries
Died 1836-06-10.
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“Oye a los hombres sabios, pero hazlo solo con un oído... Deja que el otro esté siempre preparado para recibir los dulces acentos de la voz de tu Amigo celestial.”
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1835· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1835).
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1834· 1 entry
“La futura ciencia del gobierno debería ser llamada cibernética». (1834)”
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1827· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1827).
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Ampère was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science
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1826· 1 entry
Ampère published his magnum opus, Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l'experience (Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced f
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1819· 1 entry
And 1820 Ampère offered courses in philosophy and astronomy, respectively, at the University of Paris, and in 1824 he was elected to the prestigious chair in experimental physics at the Collège de France
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1814· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1814).
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Ampère was invited to join the class of mathematicians in the new Institut Impérial, the umbrella under which the reformed state Academy of Sciences would sit
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1802· 1 entry
Ampère was appointed a professor of physics and chemistry at the École Centrale in Bourg-en-Bresse, leaving his ailing wife and infant son in Lyon
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1775· 1 entry
Born 1775-01-20.
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