Gustav Kirchhoff
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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.
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Born | Gustav Robert Kirchhoff 12 Mairch 1824(1824-03-12) Königsberg, Kinrick o Proushie (present-day Roushie) |
Dee'd | 17 October 1887(1887-10-17) (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 |
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