Electricity and Magnetism Scientists

Benjamin Franklin

American inventor demonstrated that lightning is electricity 1706 - 1790

Thomas Edison

American inventor and business man, won the patent for the electric light bulb, started the first electric power company (Tesla's nemesis) 1847 -1931

James Maxwell

completed the math for Faraday's work, and discovered electromagnetic waves 1831 - 1876

Hans Christian Oersted

discovered that an electric current creates a magnetic field - electromagnetism 1777 - 1851

Charles Coulomb

discovered that the electric force between two charges is proportional to the size of the charges (Coulomb's Law) 1736 - 1806

Luigi Galvani

during a routine dissection, he discovered that a frog's muscles contracted from an electric shock. ...lead to the idea of Frankenstein 1737 - 1798

William Gilbert

turned magnetism into a science coined the term "electricity" discovered that Earth is a magnet 1544 - 1603

Humphrey Davy

Chemist who found many different elements hired Faraday as a lab assistant 1778 - 1829

Joseph Fraunhofer

Bavarian glass maker Discovered Fraunhofer lines when looking closely at the light spectrum, shadows cast by atoms of different elements This led to spectroscopy and astrophysics! 1787 - 1826

Michael Faraday

English scientist who discover electric and magnetic fields, invented the first motor, and discovered induction 1791 - 1867

Alessandro Volta

Italian Scientist who invented the voltaic pole, the first chemical battery 1745 - 1827

Nikola Tesla

Serbian scientist who perfected the light bulb twice, invented Alternating Current, wifi, remote control, radio, cell phones, etc. 1856 - 1943

George Ohm

mathematically defined the relationships between current, voltage, and resistance in an electric circuit (Ohm's Law: V = I R) 1789 - 1854