his new science, electrodynamics, and became known ever after as its founding treatise. In 1827, Ampère was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. Probably the highest recognition came, as a reward for his mathematical representations in his publication, ‘Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of electrodynamic phenomena deduced solely from experiment,’ for which Ampère was awarded the title of the "Newton of electricity". Honours 8.10.1825: Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. Legacy An international convention, signed at the 1881 International Exposition of Electricity, established the ampere as one of the standard units of electrical measurement, in recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science and along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, watt and farad, which are named, respectively, after Ampère's contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, James Watt of Scotland and Michael Faraday of England. Ampère's name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. Many streets and squares are named after Ampère, as are schools, a Lyon metro station, a graphics processing unit microarchitecture, a mountain on the moon and an electric ferry in Norway. Writings Considérations sur la théorie mathématique du jeu, Perisse, Lyon Paris 1802, online lesen im Internet-Archiv Partial translations: Magie, W.M. (1963). A Source Book in Physics. Harvard: Cambridge MA. pp. 446–460. . Complete translations: References Further reading (EPUB) External links Ampère and the history of electricity – a French-language, edited by CNRS, site with Ampère's correspondence (full text and critical edition with links to manuscripts pictures, more than 1000 letters), an Ampère bibliography, experiments, and 3D simulations Ampère Museum – a French-language site from the museum in Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'or, near Lyon, France Ampere's Electronics Includes complete English translation of Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena "Société des Amis d'André-Marie Ampère", a French society dedicated to maintain the memory of André-Marie Ampère and in charge of the Ampère Museum. Catholic Encyclopedia on André Marie Ampère Electrical units history. 1775 births 1836 deaths Scientists from Lyon Electrostatics 19th-century French physicists People associated with electricity Independent scientists French Roman Catholics Academic staff of the Collège de France Foreign Members of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Members of the French Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium Members