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Hans Christian Ørsted
Hans Christian Ørsted,
Der Geist in der Natur
, 1854
Hans Christian Ørsted
(
Rudkøbing
14 August
,
1777
–
9 Mairch
,
1851
in
Copenhagen
) wis a
Dens
pheesicist
an
chemist
, influenced bi the conceits o
Immanuel Kant
. In
1820
he diskivered the relationship atween
eletric
an
magnetism
in an unco semple
experiment
. He shawed that a wire cairyin a current dow deflect a magnetised
compass
needle. Ørsted dinnae suggest onie guid explanation o the phenomenon, nor did he ettle ti represent the phenomenon in a
mathematical
framework.
Ørsted wisna the first body ti discover that eletric an magnetism are relatit.
Gian Domenico Romagnosi
, an Italian legal scholar, discovert the connection 18 year afore. An accoont o Romagnosi's discovery wis published in
1802
in an Italian newspaper, but it wisna noticed bi the scienteific commonty.
In
1825
he produced
alumeenium
for the first time.
The
CGS
unit
o
magnetic induction
(the
oersted
) is named in honour o his wark in the field o electromagnetism.
On his passin in 1851, Hans Christian Ørsted wis birriet in the
Assistens Kirkegard
in the
Nørrebro
section o Copenhagen. He wis the brither o the politeecian
Anders Sandøe Ørsted
.
