Surname Christian Oersted
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Hans Christian Oersted
Denmark
DenmarkDanish physicist. In 1820 he discovered the effect of electric current on a magnetic needle, which led to the emergence of a new field of physics - electromagnetism. One of the first scientists to express the idea that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon.