Prominent Names in the Field of Electrics
Andre Marie Ampere - André-Marie Ampère (20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". He showed that a mechanical force exists between two conductors carrying a current. The SI unit of electric current(the ampere, symbol:A) is named after him. Charles Augustin de Coulomb - French Physicist famous for work on electric charge. The SI derived unit of electric charge is the (the coulomb, symbol:C). It is defined as the charge transported by a steady current of one ampere in one second, One coulomb is also the amount of excess charge on the positive side of a capacitance of one farad charged to a potential difference of one volt: Georg Simon Ohm - German physicist who demonstrated the relationship between current, voltage and resistance. Ohm's law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference across the two points. The SI unit of resistance (the ohm, symbol:W) is named after him. Allessandro Volta - Italian scientist who developed the electric cell, called the voltaic pile, which comprised a series of copper and zinc discs separated by a brine soaked cloth. The SI unit(the volt, symbol:V) as named after him. Jame Watt - British engineer who invented the improved steam engine and introduced horsepower as a means of measuring power. James Presscott Joule - British scientist and an engineer best-known for his mechanical equivalent of heat and his work on the heating effect of an electric current. The derived SI unit (energy, work or heat, symbol J) is named after him. Wilhelm Edward Weber - Famous for measuring the lines of force coming out from magnets, the derived SI unit (magnetic flux, symbol:Wb) is named after him. Nickola Tesla - Renown for work on a.c. generation and distribution. The derived SI unit (magnetic flux density, symbol:B) is named after him Sir isaac Newton - English scientist of considerable fame, known especially for his work on force, mass, motion and momentum. The SI unit of force (the newton, symbol N) is named after him. Joseph Henry - American electrophysicist whose work with magnetism led him to discover self-inductance. The SI unit of inductance (the henry, symbol H) is named after him. Home page. Next page.
