Jean Baptiste Firmin Demonferrand

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Jean Baptiste Firmin Demonferrand (born January 16, 1795 in Issoudun ; † 1844 ) was professor of mathematics and physics at the Collège Royal of Versailles and examiner at the École polytechnique . Later he was head of the accounting department and the arbitration board in the Ministry of Education. He was a colleague of André-Marie Ampère and wrote the first textbook on electrodynamics in 1823, a word that Ampere coined for the study of the force effect of electrical currents.

Works

  • Manuel d'electricite dynamique ou, Traité sur l'action mutuelle des conducteurs électriques et des aimans, et sur une nouvelle théorie du magnétisme; for faire suite à tous les traités de physique élémentaire. Paris 1823
  • Handbook of dynamic electricity, containing the recent discoveries on the interrelationship of electricity and magnetism, the presentation of Ampère's theory of the latter, and experiments on thermoelectricity, as a follow-up for all. Industrie-Comptoir, Leipzig 1824

literature

  • Mary D. Archer (Ed.), Christopher D. Haley (Ed.): The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge . Cambridge University Press 2005, ISBN 9780521828734 , p. 159
  • Sydney Ross: Nineteenth-century attitudes: Men of Science. Chemists and Chemistry. Kluwer, p. 90 ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Demonferrand, Jean Baptiste Firmin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Issoudun
DATE OF DEATH 1844