Hans Christian Ørsted
Hans Christian Ørsted, sometimes transliterated as Oersted, was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law. He also discovered aluminium, a chemical element.
Background
- Born in
- Rudkøbing
- Educated at
- Friedrich Schiller University JenaUniversity of Copenhagen
- Awards
- 🏆 Copley Medal🏆 Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society🏆 Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Johann Wilhelm Ritter🎓 Jacob Baden
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Christopher Hansteen
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1777
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Birth1851
Died
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