Hans Christian Ørsted

thumb|Hans Christian Ørsted Hans Christian Ørsted (14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who is best known for discovering that electric currents can create magnetic fields. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late nineteenth century. He was also the first modern thinker to explicitly describe and name the thought experiment. Quotes The agreement of this law with nature will be better seen by the repetition of experiments than by a long explanation. Relating his discovery of the magnetic effect of an electric current, in "Experiments on the Effect of a Current of Electricity on the Magnetic Needle", Annals of Philosophy 1820, vol. 16, pp. 273-277. External links Category:Physicists from Denmark Category:1851 deaths Category:Chemists from Denmark