André-Marie Ampère

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human mathematician physicist scientist

André-Marie Ampère was a pioneering French physicist and mathematician whose work in electromagnetism led to the naming of the unit of electric current, the ampere, in his honor.

Aliases (2)

Ampère ×1
André-Marie ×1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → mathematician → physicist → scientist →
buriedAt	Montmartre Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	pneumonia →
countryOfBirth	France →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
countryOfDeath	France →
dateOfBirth	1775-01-20 →
dateOfDeath	1836-06-10 →
educatedAt	self-taught →
employer	Collège de France → École Polytechnique →
eponymOf	Ampère (crater) → Ampère (lunar crater) → Ampère (unit of electric current) → Ampère Seamount → ampere →
familyName	Ampère →
fieldOfWork	electrodynamics → electromagnetism → mathematics → physics →
givenName	André-Marie →
hasChild	Jean-Jacques Ampère →
hasPart	Ampère's circuital law → Ampère's force law →
influenced	Hendrik Lorentz → James Clerk Maxwell → Michael Faraday →
influencedBy	Isaac Newton → Joseph-Louis Lagrange → Leonhard Euler → Pierre-Simon Laplace →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
memberOf	Académie des sciences →
notableAchievement	established relationship between electricity and magnetism → formulated mathematical theory of electrodynamic forces between currents →
notableWork	Ampère's force law → formulation of Ampère's circuital law → foundations of electrodynamics →
occupation	chemist → mathematician → natural philosopher → physicist →
placeOfBirth	Lyon →
placeOfDeath	Marseille →
positionHeld	professor of experimental physics → professor of mathematics →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Paris →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alessandro Volta → Hans Christian Ørsted →	influenced
André-Marie Ampère ("Ampère") →	familyName
André-Marie Ampère ("André-Marie") →	givenName
Académie des Sciences →	hasNotableMember
Ampère–Maxwell law →	namedAfter
Volta Prize →	notableRecipient