Moved by physics Hans Christian Ørsted identified the link between magnetism and electricity thanks to a compass needle. (Courtesy: TEK Image/Science Photo Library) While giving a lecture on ...

Ampère was playing with wires when he discovered a fundamental law of electromagnetism. Hans Christian Oersted had just discovered the connection between electricity and magnetism. Meanwhile, a ...

TROY, N.Y. – Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named as the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Oersted Medal, presented by the… ...

ON July 21, 1820, Hans Christian Oersted, of Copenhagen, announced his great discovery to the world in a circular letter in Latin, “Experi-menta circa effectione conflictus electric! in acum ...

When the power station was named in the centenary year of the discovery of electromagnetism, the choice of name was supported by many of Hans Christian Ørsted’s descendants.

So far this year the company has announced it will stop using coal by 2023, has sold off its entire oil and gas business, and changed its change of name to Ørsted, to honor Hans Christian Ørsted ...

In 1820, Hans Christian Oersted gave a demonstration on electricity to a class of advanced students at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Using an early battery prototype, he looked to see ...

On August 14, 2009, Google put the “doodle” at right on their homepage to remind the world that it was the birthday of Hans Christian Ørsted — the father of the study of electromagnetism ...

Google has unveiled a new logo for its search engine to celebrate the anniversary of Hans Christian Ørsted, the Danish physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetism.

On this day in 1851, the renowned Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted died in Copenhagen aged 73. Ørsted, who is known as the father of electromagnetism, was a close friend of HC Andersen and ...