A statue of Ørsted was installed in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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Hans Christian Ørsted
Hans Christian Ørsted, sometimes transliterated as Oersted, was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law. He also discovered aluminium, a chemical element.
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science · Danish chemist and physicist (1777–1851) · physicist · chemist · inventor · university teacher · engineer · pharmacist · also Hans Christian Ørsted, Hans Christian Oersted, Ørsted
Born 14 August 1777 · Died 9 March 1851 · Q44412
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1875· 1 entry
And for the second time on 100 kroner notes issued between 1962 and 1974
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1851· 2 entries
Died 1851-03-09.
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Aged 73, and was buried there in the Assistens Cemetery
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1850· 2 entries
Shortly before his death, he submitted for publication a two-volume collection of philosophical articles in German under the title Der Geist in der Natur ("The Soul in Nature")
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Career landmark: rector (1850–1851).
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1847· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog (1847).
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1845· 1 entry
Isolating a quantity of solid metal sufficient for him to describe some of its physical properties
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1840· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector (1840–1841).
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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1839).
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1836· 1 entry
Awarded commander of the Order of the Dannebrog (1836).
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1829· 2 entries
Career landmark: rector (1829–1851).
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Ørsted founded Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt (College of Advanced Technology), which was later renamed the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
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1827· 1 entry
Ørsted gave his friend, the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler, permission to take over the research
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1825· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector (1825–1826).
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1824· 3 entries
Awarded Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog (1824).
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Ørsted founded the Society for the Dissemination of Natural Sciences (Selskabet for Naturlærens Udbredelse, or SNU)
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Ørsted made a significant contribution to chemistry by being the first person to successfully produce aluminium in its metallic state, albeit in a less-than-pure form
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1822· 1 entry
A member of the American Philosophical Society in 1829, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1849
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1821· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1821).
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1820· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (1820).
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And the French Academy granted him 3,000 francs
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Ørsted published his discovery that a compass needle was deflected from magnetic north by a nearby electric current, confirming a direct relationship between electricity and magnetism
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1819· 1 entry
Ørsted was the first to extract piperine and subsequently name it
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1815· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (1815).
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1812· 1 entry
Ørsted again visited Germany and France after publishing Videnskaben om Naturens Almindelige Love and Første Indledning til den Almindelige Naturlære (1811)
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1808· 1 entry
Humphry Davy had predicted the existence of the metal which he gave the name of alumium
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1806· 1 entry
And continued research on electric currents and acoustics
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1801· 1 entry
Ørsted received a travel scholarship and public grant which enabled him to spend three years traveling across Europe
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1800· 1 entry
Alessandro Volta reported his invention of the voltaic pile, which inspired Ørsted to investigate the nature of electricity and to conduct his first electrical experiments
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1777· 1 entry
Born 1777-08-14.
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