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Hans Christian Ørsted (Rudkøbing August 14, 1777 – March 9, 1851 in Copenhagen) was a Danish physicist and chemist, influenced by the thinking of Immanuel Kant. In 1820 he discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism in a very simple experiment. He demonstrated that a wire carrying a current was able to deflect a magnetized compass needle. Ørsted did not suggest any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon, nor did he try to represent the phenomenon in a mathematical framework. Hans Christian Ørsted This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
Hans Christian Ørsted This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
Rudkøbing is a city in central Denmark, located in Rudkøbing municipal on the island of Langeland. ...
August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ...
1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ...
Events January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. ...
City nickname: none Location in Denmark Area - Total - Water 526 km² xxx km² xx% Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density 502,204 1,116,979 954/km2 [including water] xxx/km2 [land only] Time zone Eastern: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 55°43 N 12°34 W Copenhagen (Danish: København) is...
The word physicist should not be confused with physician, which means medical doctor. ...
A chemist is a scientist who specializes in chemistry. ...
A painting of Immanuel Kant in his middle age Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 in Königsberg – February 12, 1804) was a German philosopher from Prussia, generally regarded as one of Europes most influential thinkers and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. ...
1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Electricity is a property of certain subatomic particles (e. ...
In physics, magnetism is a phenomenon by which materials exert an attractive or repulsive force on other materials. ...
From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum attempt). ...
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Ørsted was not the first person to discover that electricity and magnetism are related. He was preceded in this discovery by 18 years by Gian Domenico Romagnosi, an Italian legal scholar. An account of Romagnosi's discovery was published in 1802 in an Italian newspaper, but it was overlooked by the scientific community. Gian Domenico Romagnosi (1761-1835) was an Italian philosopher. ...
1802 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
In 1825 he made a significant contribution to chemistry by producing aluminium for the first time. 1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Chemistry (in Greek: χημεία) is the science of matter and its interactions with energy and itself (see physics, biology). ...
General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13 (IIIA), 3, p Density, Hardness 2700 kg/m3, 2. ...
The CGS unit of magnetic induction (oersted) is named in honor of his contributions to the field of electromagnetism. CGS is an acronym for centimetre-gram-second. ...
The word unit means any of several things: The natural or usual or smallest measure of something, of which there are multiples and of which there may be fractions. ...
Electromagnetic induction is the production of an electrical potential difference (or voltage) across a conductor situated in a changing magnetic field. ...
The oersted is the CGS unit of magnetic induction. ...
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