Hans Christian orsted

Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time. At the centre of an international network of scholars, he was instrumental in founding the world picture of modern physics. Ørsted was the physicist who brought Kant''s metaphysics to fruition. In 1820 his discovery of electro-magnetism, a phenomenon that coul...