Gustav Kirchhoff
Physicist, Academic
1824 – 1887
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Who was Gustav Kirchhoff?
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
He coined the term "black body" radiation in 1862, and two different sets of concepts are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him; there is also a Kirchhoff's Law in thermochemistry. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after him and his colleague, Robert Bunsen.
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- Born
- Mar 12, 1824
Kaliningrad - Also known as
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
- Nationality
- Germany
- German Empire
- Prussia
- Profession
- Education
- Kant Russian State University
- University of Königsberg
- Employment
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
- Lived in
- Germany
- East Prussia
- Prussia
- Died
- Oct 17, 1887
Berlin
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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