Gustav Kirchhoff
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 137 years ago |
Date of birth | March 12,1824 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | Konigsberg |
Date of died | October 17,1887 |
Died | Berlin |
Germany | |
Discovered | Caesium |
Rubidium | |
Cesium | |
Spouse | Luise Brömmel |
Clara Richelot | |
Job | Physicist |
Books | Researches on the Solar Spectrum, and the Spectra of the Chemical Elements |
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff's Treatise On the Theory of Light Rays 1882: English Translation, Analysis and Commentary | |
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Awards | Rumford Medal |
Matteucci Medal | |
Davy Medal | |
Janssen Medal | |
Full name | Gustav Robert Kirchhoff |
Parents | Johanna Henriette Wittke |
Friedrich Kirchhoff | |
Place of burial | Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof, Berlin, Germany |
Nationality | German |
Prussian | |
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ID | 509760 |
Gustav Kirchhoff Life story
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist 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 radiation in 1860.