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Also Known As Hans Christian Oersted
Born August 14, 1777 • Rudkøbing • Denmark
Died March 9, 1851 (aged 73) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1820)
Subjects Of Study electromagnetism • magnetic field
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Peter Armbruster
German physicist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
J. Willard Gibbs
J. Willard Gibbs
American scientist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Siméon-Denis Poisson, detail of a lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech after a portrait by N. Maurin.
Siméon-Denis Poisson
French mathematician
Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs
British physicist
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian scientist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist

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