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André-Marie Ampère — Physicist and mathematician, founder of electrodynamics, 1775–1836
Self-taught, he had read the twenty volumes of the Encyclopédie by fourteen; he was eighteen when his father, a justice of the peace, was beheaded under the Terror. He taught at Bourg, at Lyon, at the École polytechnique and at the Collège de France, and in 1820 founded the science he named electrodynamics. The unit of electric current bears his name. (Editorial synthesis)
André-Marie Ampère was born on 20 January 1775. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis and Encyclopædia Britannica)
André-Marie Ampère was born in Lyon. (source: Larousse)
André-Marie Ampère died on 10 June 1836. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis and Encyclopædia Britannica)
André-Marie Ampère died in Marseille. (source: Larousse)
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