Hans Christian Ørsted (August 14,1777 – March 9,1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist, influenced by the cerebration of Immanuel Kant. Inside 1820 he discovered a relationship between electricity and magnetism in a super elementary experiment. He demonstrated that the wire carrying the todays was respire to deflect the magnetic compass needle. Ørsted did non indicate any acceptable explanation of the phenomenon, nor did he try to represent the phenomenon around a mathematical framework.

Ørsted was non a foremost human to discover that electricity & magnetism come related. He was preceded therein discovery by Eighteen years by Gian Domenico Romagnosi, an Italian legal scholar. An account of Romagnosi's discovery was published inside 1802 in an Italian newspaper, but it was overlooked per scientific community.

Around 1825 he made the important contribution to chemistry by producing aluminium for the first period.

A CGS unit of magnetic induction (oersted) is named within honor of his contributions to the field of electromagnetism.

around his passing in 1851, Hans Christian Ørsted was inhumed in the Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen. He was a brother of the politician Anders Sandøe Ørsted.