André-Marie Ampère (jan 20, 1755 – jun 10, 1836)

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Achievements
André-Marie Ampère was known for the following:
 Needle telegraph solenoid
 Discovery of fluorine
 Monge-Ampere equation
 Amperian loop model
 Ampere’s right hand grip rule
 Ampere’s force law
 Ampere’s circuital law
Birth and death:
André-Marie Ampère was born on 20 January 1775 and died on 10 June 1836 in Marseille.
Well-known things:
The SI unit of measurement of electric current is ampere which is named after Andre-Marie Ampere. His name was also one of the 72 names inscribed on the Effiel Tower.
Family:
His father Jean-Jacques Ampere was a prosperous businessman, but he was guillotined on 24th November 1793 as part of the Jacobin purges of the period. In 1796 Ampere met Julie Carron and in 1799 they were married. Ampere first job was in 1799 as mathematics teacher. Then he married Carron and father his first child, Jean-Jacques (names after his father), then the tragedy the next year his wife died in July 1803.

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