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  1. Ampere, Andre Marie 1775-1836. 
  2. French physicist and mathematician who made 
  3. many discoveries in electromagnetism and
  4. electrodymanics. He followed up the work of
  5. Hans Oersted on the interaction between
  6. magnets and electric currents, developing a
  7. rule for determining the direction of the
  8. magnetic field associated with an electric
  9. current. The ammeter and ampere are named
  10. after him.
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