Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1975 - 35 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1975 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five special postage stamps with portraits of important personalities. No special first-day cover 35-pfennig value: André-Marie Ampère André-Marie Ampère, born on January 22, 1775 in Palognieux near Lyon, died on June 10, 1836 in Marseille, is one of the most famous French scientists of the 19th century. As a mathematician and naturalist, he worked at the beginning of the 19th century as a professor of physics in Bourg, later as a professor of mathematics in Paris. Mathematics, mechanics and physics owe him important investigations. In Paris, Ampère became the creator of the science of electrodynamics between 1820 and 1826. Through numerous experiments and in significant theoretical treatises he establishes his electrodynamic theory. His most important, world-famous work concerns the mathematical theory of electrodynamic phenomena. The name "Ampère" refers to the unit of electric current in the world. André-Marie Ampère, one of the most outstanding representatives of the natural sciences, was already in 1814 elected to the Mathematical Section of the French Academy of Sciences. Among his numerous honors is also his membership in the Berlin Academy, today's Academy of Sciences of the GDR, whose corresponding member he became in 1827.