Gustav Kirchhoff
1824 – 1887 · aged 63
German physicist (1824–1887)
- Born
- 12 Mar 1824 · Königsberg
- Died
- 17 Oct 1887 · Berlin
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- 12 Mar 1824BornBorn in Königsberg
- 1860AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- 1862AwardRumford Medal
- 1868AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1875AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1876AwardCothenius Medal
- 1877AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 1877AwardDavy Medal
- 1877AwardMatteucci Medal
- 1887AwardJanssen Medal
- 17 Oct 1887DiedDied in Berlin
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- 1853 – 1856Crimean War
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
Biography
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (German: [ˈgʊstaːf ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈkɪʁçhɔf]; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist and mathematician 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 in 1860.
Several different sets of concepts are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him, which include Kirchhoff's circuit laws, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, and Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry.
The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Kirchhoff and his colleague, Robert Bunsen.
Text from the Wikipedia article Gustav Kirchhoff, CC BY-SA 4.0
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