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Magnetism
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Electromagnetism and Unification
The intimate connection between electricity and magnetism was firmly established by the work of Hans Christian Ørsted in 1820, who observed that an electric current deflects a compass needle. This led to the formulation of the Biot-Savart Law, which calculates the magnetic field produced by a steady current distribution.
Later, James Clerk Maxwell integrated the phenomena into a single, coherent framework—electromagnetism. Maxwell's equations, in their compl…