Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information - Born on Aug. 14, 1777, #physicist Hans Christian Oersted astonished the world with his discovery that an electric current generates a magnetic
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Hans Christian Ørsted (August 14, 1777 - March 9, 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism and leader of
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Han er elektromagnetismen og aluminiumens far. Les den utrolige historien om en av Nordens største vitenskapsmenn - Tu.no
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