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
Gustav Kirchhoff
BornGustav Robert Kirchhoff
12 Mairch 1824(1824-03-12)
Königsberg, Kinrick o Proushie
(present-day Roushie)
Dee'd17 October 1887(1887-10-17) (aged 63)
Berlin, Proushie, German Empire
(present-day Germany)
ResidenceProushie/German Empire
NaitionalityProushie
Alma materVarsity o Königsberg
Kent forKirchhoff's circuit laws
Kirchhoff's law o thermal radiation
Kirchhoff's laws o spectroscopy
Kirchhoff's law o thermochemistry
AwairdsRumford medal (1862)
Davy Medal (1877)
Matteucci Medal (1877)
Janssen Medal (1887)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Chemistry
InstitutionsVarsity o Berlin
Varsity o Breslau
Varsity o Heidelberg
Doctoral advisorFranz Ernst Neumann
Otto Hesse
Notable studentsLoránd Eötvös
Gabriel Lippmann[1]
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
Max Planck
Jules Piccard
Max Noether
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Ernst Schröder

References eedit

  1. Physics Tree profile Gustav Robert Kirchhoff