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. He also discovered aluminium, a chemical element.
- Occupation
- physicist, chemist, inventor, university teacher
- Position held
- rector, rector, rector, rector
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Born
- August 14, 1777
- Died
- March 9, 1851
