About Hans Christian Ørsted

Hans Christian Ørsted, sometimes transliterated as Oersted, 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 chemical element.

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Hans Christian Ørsted

Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)

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