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Ampere, Andre Marie (1775-1836)
Born: Lyon, France
Ampere is best known for his pioneering work in the field of Electrodynamics. During his emotionally troubled life, he held several professorships: at Bourg, Lyon, and at the Ecole Polytechnic in Paris. While Ampere worked in several sciences, the work of the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oerstad on the electric deflection of a compass needle, as demonstrated to him by Dominique Arago, caused Ampere's great interest in electromagnetism.
His seminal work, Notes on the Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena Deduced Solely from Experiment, established the mathematical formulations for electromagnetics including what is now known as Ampere's Law. It can be said that Ampere founded the field of electromagnetics. He is honored for this by the naming of the unit of electric current as the ampere.