Almost everyone who works in the electrical industry knows the unit for measuring electric current is named in honor of André-Marie Ampère, the person who discovered that a wire carrying electric ...

ANDRÉ MARIE AMPÈRE was born in Lyons on January 20, 1775, and died at Marseilles on June 7, 1836. His early childhood was spent in the country near his birthplace and his first studies were ...

Today's column is a random collection of true stories about famous scientists, mostly taken from The Human Side of Scientists, by RE Oesper (Univ. Cincinnati, 1975). Andre-Marie Ampere (1775- 1836 ...