Hans Christian Ørsted, sometimes transliterated as Oersted, was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law.
Statue of Ørsted at Oxford
Portrait of Hans Christian Ørsted by Christian Albrecht Jensen (1842)
Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagneti
Faraday, c. 1850s
Three Fellows of the Royal Society offering the presidency to Faraday (right) in 1857
Faraday House in Hampton Court where Faraday lived between 1858 and 1867
Faraday's grave at Highgate Cemetery, north London