André-Marie Ampère

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André-Marie Ampère (Lyons 20 January, 1775 – Marseilles 10 June, 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician. His most important contribution was Ampere's law, which describes the relation between electric current and magnetic field. The unit of electric current ampere is named after him.

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