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Download Solution PDFWho discovered the concept of Electromagnetism in 1820?
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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Hans C Oersted
Key Points
- Hans Christian Oersted, a Danish scientist discovered electromagnetism in 1820.
- Oersted discovered that electric current can produce a magnetic field.
- Around 1830, an English scientist named Michael Faraday discovered that the opposite is also true and magnetic field can produce electricity.
- Faraday also discovered the chemical compound Benzene.
- Andre Marie Ampere was a French physicist and Mathematician who invented devices like the electric telegraph and worked on electromagnetism
- The SI unit of electric current is named after Andre Ampere
- James Clark Maxwell was a Scottish scientist who for the first time linked to light, electricity, and magnetism to a unified phenomenon.
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