He is a French physicist who founded and named the science of electrodynamics, now known as the electro magnetism.
His name endures in everyday life in the ampere, the unit for measuring electric current.
Who is André-Marie Ampère?
Best known for his work on electricity and electrochemistry, Faraday proposed the laws of electrolysis.
He also discovered benzene and other hydrocarbons. As a young man in London, Michael Faraday attended science lectures by the great Sir Humphry Davy.
What is Faraday famous for?
What is Hertz experiment?
The existence of electromagnetic waves was confirmed experimentally by Hertz in 1888.
This experiment is based on the fact that an oscillating electric charge radiates electromagnetic waves. The energy of these waves is due to the kinetic energy of the oscillating charge.
In his formulation of electromagnetism, Maxwell described light as a propagating wave of electric and magnetic fields.
What was Maxwell's electromagnetic theory?
More generally, he predicted the existence of electromagnetic radiation: coupled electric and magnetic fields traveling as waves at a speed equal to the known speed of light.
In the year 1820 Oersted discovered that a magnetic needle aligns itself perpendicularly to a current-carrying wire, definite experimental evidence of the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
Oersted is still known today for Oersted's Law, electric current, electromagnetism, piperine discovery and finally formulation of metallic aluminum.