André-Marie Ampère
(1775-1836)

discoverer of electrodynamic forces, Professor of Mathematics, inventor of the first electric telegraph, inventor of the galvanometer, member of l'Academie des Sciences (from 1814), and Chair of Physics at the Collège de France (from 1824)

Died aged c. 61

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

Ici s'élevait la maison qu'André-Marie Ampère habita de 1818 à sa mort et où, en 1820, il découvrit les forces électrodynamiques

English translation: Here stood the house that André-Marie Ampère lived from 1818 to his death and where in 1820 he discovered the electrodynamic forces [AWS Translate]

29bis, Rue Monge, 5th arrondissement, Paris, France where they lived and discovered electro-dynamic forces

Ampère découvre l'électrodynamique Né près de Lyon en 1775, André Marie Ampère est Professeur d'analyse à l'école Polytechnique depuis 1809 lorsqu'il assiste a l'expérience d'Oersted sur la déviation de l'aiguille aimantée par un courant électrique : il en construit la théorie en quelques jours et pose ainsi les bases de l'électrodynamique. Dès 1821, il èmet l'hypothèse que les molécules des corps sont l'objets de "courants particulaires" dirigeables par l'aimantation. Il invent aussi le galvanomètre et le premier télégraphe électrique. Membre de l'Académie des Sciences en 1814, il est étu a la Chaire de Physique du Collège de France en 1824. Entre 1818 et sa mort, en 1836, Ampère habite cette maison, qui lui sert également de laboratoire.

English translation: Ampère discovers electrodynamics Born near Lyon in 1775, André Marie Ampère has been a professor of analysis at École Polytechnique since 1809 when he attended Oersted's experiment on the deflection of the magnetic needle by an electric current: he built the theory of it in a few days and thus laid the foundations of electrodynamics. As early as 1821, he hypothesized that the molecules of the bodies were the objects of “particulate currents” that were airborne by magnetization. They also invent the galvanometer and the first electric telegraph. A member of the Academy of Sciences in 1814, he was a Chair of Physics at the Collège de France in 1824. Between 1818 and his death in 1836, Ampère lived in this house, which also served as a laboratory. [AWS Translate]

29bis, Rue Monge, 5th arrondissement, Paris, France where they lived and had his laboratory