Who discovered that magnetic phenomena can be produced by electric effects?

Answer 1

This was Hans Christian Ørsted. April 1820 - Copenhagen.

He found that a compass needle could be deflected (it moved) if a current was switched on or off in a nearby conductor. This was the first demonstrated link between electricity and magnetism, later taken up in detail by Michael Faraday.

Oersted did not develop his experiment into an electric motor, though it is the basic idea on which all motors work - the interaction of an electric current with a magnet (usually in modern motors an electromagnet of some kind) to produce a force, and thus a movement.

Answer 2

A Scientist called Hans Christian Oersted is the inventor of the magnetic effect of the electric current. The Scientist who was Danish is the one who discovered the magnetic effect of the electric current.

Comment Oersted didn't 'invent' this effect; he is credited with 'discovering' it. The effect was present long before it was discovered!

Answer 3

Magnetism electricity (electromagnetism) was not invented;it was discovered in the year 1820 by a Danish physicist,Hans Christian Oersted.He discovered that a current carrying wire could behave like a magnet.He thus,discovered that there is a corelation between electricity(i.e.,electric currents). Earlier on, people had thought that electricity and magnetism are independent (of each other) phenomenon. Oersted's discovery showed that this is not so and we can use electric currents to produce magnetic effects.

Answer 4

Oersted. For Further Enquery pls seePhysics for the IB Diploma: Standard and Higher Level - Google Books Result by Tim Kirk - 2003 - Science - 182 pages siv_sagar@Yahoo.com

Answer 5

During 1819-20, a science teacher H.C. Oestead discovered that the magnetic field can be produced by an electric current.

Answer 6

It was not invented,It was discovered by "HANS CHRISTIAN OERSTED".

Answer 7

Hans Christian Ørsted

Answer 8

H.C. Ørsted