Name the scientist who experimentally demonstrated the presence of a magnetic field around the current-carrying conductor?

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H.C. Orested was the first scientist to demonstrate the presence of a magnetic field around a current-carrying conductor.
He found a magnet compass that shows deflection when the current passes through the nearby conductor.

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