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Charles Ampere was born in Lyon, France
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He was admitted to the Academy of Sciences.
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Ampère immediately set to work developing a mathematical and physical theory to understand the relationship between electricity and magnetism. Extending Ørsted’s experimental work, Ampère showed that two parallel wires carrying electric currents repel or attract each other, depending on whether the currents flow in the same or opposite directions, respectively. He also applied mathematics in generalizing physical laws from these experimental results.
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Charles Ampere dies in Marseille, France
