Gustav Kirchhoff
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) wis a German pheesicist who contreibutit tae the fundamental unnerstaundin o electrical circuits, spectroscopy, an the emission o black-body radiation bi heatit objects.
Gustav Kirchhoff | |
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 Gustav Kirchhoff | |
| Born | Gustav Robert Kirchhoff 12 Mairch 1824 Königsberg, Kinrick o Proushie (present-day Roushie) |
| Dee'd | 17 October 1887 (aged 63) Berlin, Proushie, German Empire (present-day Germany) |
| Residence | Proushie/German Empire |
| Naitionality | Proushie |
| Alma mater | Varsity o Königsberg |
| Kent for | Kirchhoff's circuit laws Kirchhoff's law o thermal radiation Kirchhoff's laws o spectroscopy Kirchhoff's law o thermochemistry |
| Awairds | Rumford medal (1862) Davy Medal (1877) Matteucci Medal (1877) Janssen Medal (1887) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics Chemistry |
| Institutions | Varsity o Berlin Varsity o Breslau Varsity o Heidelberg |
| Doctoral advisor | Franz Ernst Neumann Otto Hesse |
| Notable students | Loránd Eötvös Gabriel Lippmann[1] Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev Max Planck Jules Piccard Max Noether Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Ernst Schröder |
References
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