Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (12 Mairch 1824 – 17 October 1887) wis a German physicist that contreibutit tae the fundamental unnerstaundin o electrical circuits, spectroscopy, an the emission o black-body radiation bi heatit objects.
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Gustav Kirchhoff |
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 Gustav Kirchhoff |
| Born | Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
12 Mairch 1824(1824-03-12)
Königsberg, Kinrick o Proushie
(present-day Roushie) |
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| Dee'd | 17 October 1887(1887-10-17) (aged 63)
Berlin, Proushie, German Empire
(present-day Germany) |
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| Residence | Proushie/German Empire |
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| Naitionality | Proushie |
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| Alma mater | Varsity o Königsberg |
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| Kent for | Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Kirchhoff's law o thermal radiation
Kirchhoff's laws o spectroscopy
Kirchhoff's law o thermochemistry |
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| Awairds | Rumford medal (1862)
Davy Medal (1877)
Matteucci Medal (1877)
Janssen Medal (1887) |
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Physics
Chemistry |
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| Institutions | Varsity o Berlin
Varsity o Breslau
Varsity o Heidelberg |
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| Doctoral advisor | Franz Ernst Neumann
Otto Hesse |
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| 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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