# Ampere |  | The **Ampere**, often shortened to amp, is the unit of electric current in the International System of Units (SI). One ampere is equal to 1 coulomb (C) moving past a point in 1 second. It is named after French mathematician and physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), considered the father of electromagnetism along with Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Ampere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere) |