The French physicist André Marie Ampère (1775-1836), with his original and penetrating analysis of the magnetic effects of current-carrying wires, was the founder of electrodynamics. Born on Jan. 20, 1775, in Lyons, André Marie...

André Ampère was born on January 22, 1775, in Lyon, France. He was the son of a well-to-do merchant. He mastered advanced mathematics on his own while still in his teens and learned Latin so he could read the works of the learned...

André Ampère was born on January 22, 1775,in Lyon, France. He was the son of a well-to-do merchant. He mastered advanced mathematics by the age of twelve and learned Latin so he could read the works of the learned scientists....

André-Marie Ampère was born in Lyons, France, the son of a wealthy merchant. Ampère's education was determined by his father, Jean-Jacques, who followed Jean Jacques Rousseau's theories of education. Ampère was left to...

AmpÈre, AndrÉ Marie(1775–1836) André Marie Ampère was a French physicist and philosopher; his main achievement in physics was the foundation of electrodynamics. He correctly recognized that Hans Christian...

1775-1836 French mathematician and physicist who made important discoveries toward the understanding of electricity and magnetism. Ampère proposed, with Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), that equal volumes of gas at the same pressure and temperature...

André-Marie Ampère (January 20 1775 – June 10 1836), was a French physicist who is generally credited as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after...

Andre Marie Jacq, a French teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., from 1947 to 1974, died of cancer yesterday in Concord Hospital. He was 79 and lived in Concord, N.H. A native of Le Havre, France, Mr. Jacq also taught French...