词汇 | oersted |
词源 | oersted. The Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Oersted (1777–1851) founded the science of electro-magnetism when he discovered that direct electric current causes a mag- netic needle to take a position at right angles to the wire carry- ing it. This basic fact of electromagnetic induction was the starting point for all future work in the field. Unlike many sci- entific discoveries, the Copenhagen professor’s attracted im- mediate and widespread attention when he published a Latin monograph describing it in July 1820, about a year later. The scientist’s name in Danish is actually Orsted, but has become anglicized to Oersted. The oersted honoring him is a unit of magnetic field intensity. |
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