Ampère, André Marie (Ampère`, André Marie) , a French mathematician and physicist, born at Lyons; distinguished for his discoveries in electro-dynamics and magnetism, and the influence of these on electro-telegraphy and the general extension of science (1775‒1836).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Amoy` * Ampère, Jean Jacques