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André-Marie Ampère (
January 20 1775 –
June 10 1836), was a French
physicist and
mathematician who is generally credited as one of the main discoverers of
electromagnetism. The
SI unit of measurement of
electric current, the
ampere, is named after him.
Early days
Ampère was born on January 20, 1775 in
Lyon, France, and lived from 1782 to 1796 in the nearby burg of
Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or. His father began to teach him
Latin, but ceased on discovering the boy's greater inclination and aptitude for mathematical studies. The young Ampère, however, soon resumed his Latin lessons, to enable him to master the works of
Euler and
Bernoulli.
In later life he was accustomed to say that he knew as much about mathematics and science when he was eighteen as ever he knew; but, a
polymath, his reading embraced nearly the whole round of knowledge — history, travels, poetry, philosophy and the natural sciences.
During the revolution his father stayed at Lyons expecting to be safer in the city. Nevertheless, after the revolutionaries have taken the city he fell a victim and was executed. This death was a great shock to Ampere.
In 1796 he met Julie Carron, the daughter of a blacksmith living near Lyon, and an attachment sprang up between them. In 1799 they were married. From about 1796 Ampère gave private lessons at Lyon in
mathematics,
chemistry and languages; and in 1801 he removed to Bourg, as professor of
physics and chemistry, leaving his ailing wife and infant son (
Jean Jacques Ampère) at Lyon. Her death, in July 1803, troubled Ampère for the rest of his life. Also in 1804, Ampère was appointed professor of mathematics at the
lycée of Lyon.
Ampère used to say that "at eighteen years he found three culminating points in his life, his
First Communion, the reading of Thomas's "Eulogy of Descartes", and the
Taking of the Bastille... On the day of his wife's death he wrote two verses from the
Psalms, and the prayer, 'O Lord, God of Mercy, unite me in Heaven with those whom you've permitted me to love on earth.' Serious doubts harassed him at times, and made him very unhappy. Then he'd take refuge in the reading of the
Bible and the Fathers of the Church."
Contributions to physics and further studies
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre's recommendation obtained for him the Lyon appointment, and afterwards (1805) a minor position in the polytechnic school at Paris, where he was appointed professor of mathematics in 1809. Here he continued to pursue his scientific research and his diverse studies with unabated diligence. He was admitted as a member of the Institute in 1814.
Ampère's fame mainly rests on the service that he rendered to science in establishing the relations between electricity and magnetism, and in developing the science of electromagnetism, or, as he called it, electrodynamics. On
September 11,
1820 he heard of
H. C. Ørsted's discovery that a magnetic needle is acted on by a voltaic current. Only a week later, on
September 18, he presented a paper to the Academy containing a far more complete exposition of that and kindred phenomena.
On the same day Ampère also demonstrated before the Academy that parallel wires carrying currents attract or repel each other (depending on whether currents are in the same or in opposite directions). This laid the foundation of the science of
electrodynamics.
Legacy and final days
The field of electromagnetism thus opened up, he explored with characteristic industry and care, and developed a mathematical theory which not only explained the electromagnetic phenomena already observed, but also predicted many new ones.
Ampère's final work, published posthumously, was "Essai sur la philosophie des sciences, ou exposition analytique d'une classification naturelle de toutes les connaissances humaines" ("Essay on the philosophy of science or analytical exposition on the natural classification of human knowledge").
Ampère died at
Marseille and is buried in the
Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris. The great amiability and childlike simplicity of his character are well brought out in his
Journal et correspondence (Paris, 1872).
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