Andre-Marie Ampere was a French physicist born in 1775 in France. He was educated at home by his father and showed an aptitude for mathematics at a young age. As a child, he spent much of his time reading in his family's library and working on mathematical problems. Despite not attending school, he received an excellent education from his father. Ampere made early contributions to mathematics and published his first paper at age 13. He is best known for his work in electrodynamics in the 1820s, where he discovered electromagnetism and established its fundamental laws and phenomena. The ampere, the SI unit for electric current, is named after him. He worked as a professor of mathematics in Lyon and

1. ANDRE-MARIE AMPER

2. NATIONALITY
• He was born in the village of
Polémieux (near Lyon),
France.
• His ethnicity was white
• He is a man, so his gender is
obviously MALE
• His occupation is Phisycist
• Executive summary is
Explored Electromagnetism

3. THE EARLY DAYS OF A GREAT
PHYSICIST
• Ampere-Marie Amper was
born on January 20, 1775
• He was schooled at home
by his father and showed
an aptitude for
mathematics at an early
age.
• He was the son of a rich
silk merchant who lived in
Lyons.
• Ampere never went to
school, but he read
widely, had an excellent
memory, and was a child
prodigy.

4. AMPERE
YOUNG
LIFE
• As a child Ampere spent a great deal of time
reading in the library of his family home.
• He consumed books of history, geography,
literature, philosophy and the natural sciences.
• He used to work out long mathematical
formulas, just for his own personal
entertainment, using small pebbles or
breadcrumbs to represent groups of numbers.
• Despite not attending school, Andre-Marie
was to be given an excellent education:
• “His father, who had never ceased to cultivate
Latin and French literature, as well as several
branches of science, raised him himself in the
country near the city where he was born. He
never required him to study anything, but he
knew how to inspire in him a desire to know.
Before being able to read, the young Ampere’s
greatest pleasure was to listen to passages
from Buffon’s natural history.”

5. TEEN IDEAS
OF AMPERE
• He started to read elementary
mathematics books until he was 13
years old.
• Ampere developed his own
mathematical ideas very quickly.
• He began to write a treatise on conic
sections.
• Ampere had no contacts with anyone
with any depth of mathematical
knowledge so it is not surprising that
he felt that his ideas were original.
• Ampere submitted his first paper to
the Academie de Lyon.This work
attempted to solve the problem of
constructing a line of the same length
as an arc of a circle.
• His method involves the use of
infinitesimals but since Ampere had
not studied the calculus the paper was

6. OUTSTANDING
FACTS!!!!!
• Ampere was amathematician
who is best known for
his greatest accomplishment to
the study of electrodynamics.
• He invented the astatic needle,
a critical component of the
modern astatis galvanometer
• He was the first to demonstrate
that a magnetic field is
generated when two parallel
wires are charged with
electricity.
• He is generally credited as one
of the first to discover
electromagnetism.

7. MARRIAGE LIFE
• When Ampére was eighteen years old, his father, a
dedicated monarchist, was involved in the city of
Lyon's rebellion against the Republican government of
France. Convicted of treason, he was publicly
executed.
• Ampére was so shaken by the event that he gave up
his study of mathematics for eighteen months.
• The couple was engaged to be married in 1797, and
soon after Ampére began tutoring mathematics in
Lyon.
• He married Julie in 1799
• couple's son Jean-Jacques was born in 1800.
• Ampére continued tutoring mathematics until 1802,
when he was appointed Professor of Physics and
Chemistry at Bourg Ecole Centrale. Unfortunately,
Ampére had to leave his young wife behind because
she had been stricken by an unidentified illness.
• After a year in Bourg, Ampére was appointed to a
mathematics position at the Lycée in Lyon, allowing
him to be closer to his now seriously ill wife.
• Julie died in July 1803.
• In 1809, his intellectual powers fully restored, he
secured the post of Professor of Mathematics at the
Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, where he remained until
1828.
FATHER SON

8. AFTER
MARRIAGE
LIFE
• Chemistry In 1811, he suggested that an anhydrous acid prepared two
years earlier was a compound of hydrogen with an unknown element,
for which he suggested the name fluorine.
• In 1816 he produced a classification of elements.
• Physics In 1815 he published a paper on the refraction of light.
• 1816 he was a strong advocate of a wave theory of light.
• About 1820 he began conducting experiments on electricity and
magnetism, and it is for this work that he is best remembered today.
• In 1820 Hans Christian Øersted had noticed that a compass needle
was deflected when brought close to a wire carrying an electric current.
It was the first suggestion of a link between magnetism and electricity.
• Ampére had worked out a rule relating the direction in which the
compass needle was deflected to the direction in which the electric
current flowed along the wire. The "swimmer's rule," states that if an
observer were to swim along the current-carrying wire in the direction
of the current and facing the compass needle, the north pole of the
needle would be deflected toward the swimmer's left hand.
• The "right-hand grip" rule. In this rule the observer's right hand is
imagined gripping the wire through which the current flows, with the
thumb pointing along the wire in the direction of the current. The
fingers, curling around the wire, indicate the direction in which the
compass needle will be deflected. This concept anticipated the theory
of electromagnetic force, formulated several years later, which showed
that a magnetic field encircles an electrified wire just as do the fingers
of the hand in Ampére's right-hand rule.

9. AWARDS
• Known for his
contributions to
electrodynamics
• The formulation of
Ampère's law
• He confirmed and
amplified the work of
Oersted on the
relationship of electricity
and magnetism
• He invented the astatic
needle.
• The ampere was named
for him.

10. THE END
OF THE
GREAT
PHYSICIST!
!!
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• Died: 10 June 1836 in Marseilles, France

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