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Hans Christian Oersted

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Noun1.Hans Christian Oersted - Danish physicist (1777-1851)


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Professor Hans Christian Oersted from Copenhagen, who on April 21, 1820 first observed the magnetic effects of an electric current [2], proposed a clear explanation of the phenomenon discovered.
Then came Volta with his famous ''electric pile'' and Galvani and Day and the Danish professor Hans Christian Oersted and Ampere and Arago and Faraday, all of them diligent searchers after the true nature of the electric forces.
 
 
 
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