Andre Marie Ampere Proposer of Electromagnetism

Biography of Andre Marie Ampere

Early Life

Andre Marie Ampere was a French mathematician and physician who born on January 20, 1775 in a city of France known as Lyon. His father’s name was Jean Jacques Ampere who was a businessman by profession and was also an official of local government. He was very much interested in studies from a very young age and that is why he used to spent most of his time in his own library which raised his interest in different fields e.g. mathematics, geography, physics, literature and history. His father supported him a lot and advised him to build up his career further in mathematics.

Achievements

He was very young when he started practical work in mathematics as he started to build his own mathematical ideas and on the other hand, he was working on a thesis of mathematics. He presented his paper about the solution of constructing a line of same length as an arc of a circle in the age of just 13 years. His paper and solution was rejected because of the reason that he had not any specific knowledge of calculus.

Contributions

This thing developed his interest more in calculus and he started to study calculus in details. He started teaching mathematics in 1897 and continued it till 1902. In the year of 1820, a magnetic needle was discovered by a Danish physicist and this thing promoted his interest in this field and for his purpose he conducted many experiments to find out exact relationship between flowing current and magnetic field. He also worked for the different behaviors of electric currents in different conductors.

Inventor of Electromagnetism

Andre Marie Ampere was the person who laid the foundation of electrodynamics which is known as Electromagnetism now days.

Electromagnetism

He proposed that when we charge two equal and parallels wires with electricity, then a magnetic field is produced and generated to invent the static needle which is an important part of the contemporary galvanometer. He conducted many experiments and research and on the basis of those he proposed this law which is now known as Ampere’s law. He added to this theory that if the currents are in same direction they will attract each other and they will repel one another if they are in opposite direction.

Death

This man, who gave a new dimension to the electromagnetism died on 10 June, 1836 in Marseille. His grave is located in Paris. Later on, he was honored by naming the system international unit of current after him as Ampere. We can say him as that he was the base of a new era in physics.