Happy 233rd Birthday - Andr�-Marie Amp�re
A nice mini-biography and birthday celebration at Lubo� Motl's
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Andr�-Marie Amp�re: a birthday
Andr�-Marie Amp�re was born on January 20th, 1775, in Lyon, France, to a family of a rich and smart merchant and a pious mother. He was a child prodigy who lived in a nearby burg. Andr�-Marie was able to resum long arithmetic series using pebbles and biscuits before he knew the figures.
His father wanted to teach him Latin but it was realized that the boy prefers maths and physics. Nevertheless, Andr�-Marie had to learn Latin soon, in order to read the papers by Euler and Bernoulli. ;-)
Definitely one of the cornerstones of electricity and physics...
Posted by DaveH at January 20, 2008 3:27 PM