Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
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He noticed that a compass needle twitched near a live wire — the first proof that electricity and magnetism weren't separate forces but two faces of the same thing.
Hans Christian Ørsted was born in Denmark on 14 August 1777, trained as both a chemist and physicist, and spent years wondering whether the fundamental forces of nature might be connected. In 1820 he ran a current through a wire during a lecture and watched a nearby compass deflect — the discovery that electric currents create magnetic fields, now called Oersted's law, and the birth of electromagnetism. He also isolated aluminium as a chemical element. A central figure of the Danish Golden Age, he kept close company with Hans Christian Andersen and was brother to Anders Sandøe Ørsted, who woul…
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The agreement of this law with nature will be better seen by the repetition of experiments than by a long explanation.
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