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  2. Hans Christian Ørsted - Wikipedia

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    Hans Christian Ørsted (/ ˈ ɜːr s t ɛ d /; [5] Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɶɐ̯steð] ⓘ; anglicized as Oersted; [note 1] 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law. He also discovered aluminium, a ...

  3. 1820s - Wikipedia

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    The 1820s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1820, and ended on December 31, 1829.. It saw the rise of the First Industrial Revolution. Photography, rail transport, and the textile industry were among those that largely developed and grew prominent over the decade, as technology advanced significantly.

  4. Modernism (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in ...

  5. List of scientists whose names are used as units - Wikipedia

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    Hans Christian Ørsted: 1777–1851 Danish: Magnetic field: oersted (Oe) Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss: 1777–1855 German Magnetic flux density: gauss (G) Michael Faraday: 1791–1867 British (English) Electric charge: faraday (F) Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille: 1797–1869 French Dynamic viscosity: poise (P) Anders Jonas Ångström: 1814–1874 ...

  6. Romanticism in science - Wikipedia

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    Christensen (2005) shows that the work of Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851) was based in Romanticism. Ørsted's discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 was directed against the mathematically based Newtonian physics of the Enlightenment; Ørsted considered technology and practical applications of science to be unconnected with true scientific ...

  7. Oersted's law - Wikipedia

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    In electromagnetism, Ørsted's law, also spelled Oersted's law, is the physical law stating that an electric current induces a magnetic field. [ 2 ] This was discovered on 21 April 1820 by Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), [ 3 ] [ 4 ] when he noticed that the needle of a compass next to a wire carrying current turned so ...

  8. Hans Ørsted - Wikipedia

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    Hans Ørsted may refer to: Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish chemist and physicist; Hans-Henrik Ørsted (born 1954), Danish track cyclist; See also.

  9. Modernism - Wikipedia

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    Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. [1] Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement.