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.
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Actor
1966 · United States
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1959 · United States
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1945 · United States
American comedian, actor, musician and writer (born 1945)
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